India, July 28 -- Delhi Police on Monday sought the death sentence for former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others convicted in the sensational murder case of IB officer Ankit Sharma, saying that "they fell to the level of being animals" while relentlessly assaulting the victim.

The submissions were made before Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh, who was also informed that Sharma was abducted, relentlessly assaulted and then killed by the convicted persons. The court reserved its order for July 31 after hearing arguments from both prosecution and defence counsels of all five convicts.

Special public prosecutor Madhukar Pandey submitted that Sharma was brutally killed and was not shown any mercy by the convicts, so they shou...