Tahir Hussain, a former member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), was given a life sentence for killing Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the February 2020 riots in Delhi. The Karkardooma court in Delhi stated that the “manner of the crime was of utmost brutality” when announcing the sentence.
“The murder was not the end of the brutality. The court stated, “His body was dragged into a nearby drain as if the hatred was still unquenched.” “The rarest of rare is the target of the crime. Additionally, the mitigating circumstances are outweighed by the ugliness of the act, the statement stated.
During the unrest that raged across northeast Delhi at the end of February, Sharma, 26, a security assistant with IB, was dragged by the mob and beaten with knives, sticks, rods, and stones before his body was thrown in a gutter. The following day, the body with at least 51 knife wounds was discovered.
According to Hussain’s attorney Tara Narula, he was merely present in the throng and had nothing to do with the crime. The former AAP councillor declared in a statement that he will keep fighting for justice. “The court has only two options, life sentence or death sentence.” Since none of the five defendants used a knife, the court determined that vicarious culpability applied. We think our client is innocent. Narula told reporters, “We are getting ready to file an appeal.
The former AAP councillor declared in a statement that he will keep up his struggle for justice. “Justice won’t be denied, but it might take longer. The supreme court will provide me with justice. “The game was rigged,” he declared. According to the chargesheet, Sharma was besieged by the crowd on February 25 at approximately 5 p.m. while attempting to appease two factions close to Hussain’s residence.
“Tahir Hussain’s life imprisonment sentence is the beginning of justice,” Delhi Law Minister Kapil Mishra wrote in a post on X shortly after the sentence. “The rarest of rare is the brutality with which Ankit Sharma ji was murdered, he was stabbed with knives even after he passed away, and his body was dumped into a drain. It is hoped that this life sentence would be changed to the death punishment by the top court.”
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