Tahir Hussain sentenced to life imprisonment for IB staffer's murder in 2020 Delhi riots

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A Delhi court has sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four co-accused to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau employee Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Delhi riots. The court determined that Sharma was lynched solely because of his religious identity. Prosecutors had pushed for the death penalty, but the judge declined to impose it. The judge cited the educational backgrounds of the convicts as a mitigating factor in the sentencing decision.

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