India, Aug. 1 -- A year after he paved the way for the defeat of the AAP candidate and the victory of the BJP from the minority voter dominated Mustafabad Assembly seat, Tahir Hussain was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the 2020 Delhi riots.

A city court sentenced him and four co-convicts to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the riots, saying the case did not fall within the "rarest of rare" category warranting the death penalty.

"Insaaf High Court se milega (Justice will come from the High Court)," Hussain exuded hope while being escorted out of a Delhi court after he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Hussain, 48, was an AAP councillor from Nehru Vihar war...