New Delhi, July 31 -- Six years after Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma was brutally killed during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, a Delhi court on Friday sentenced former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor Tahir Hussain and four others to life imprisonment, observing that "the barbarity with which this horrendous crime was committed, is nauseating and sickening," while ruling that the convicts were not beyond reformation and therefore did not deserve the death penalty.
Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh of the Karkardooma Court sentenced Hussain along with Nazir, Asim, Javed, and Anas after convicting them of murder and other offences under the Indian Penal Code, including rioting, promoting enmity between groups, unlawful ...