2020 Delhi riots: Court convicts ex-AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, 4 others in IB officer Ankit Sharma murder case

New Delhi | A Delhi court on Monday convicted former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain and four others for the sensational killing of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.

Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh was hearing the case against a total of 11 accused, including Hussain, and convicted five of them.

The court found Tahir Hussain guilty under the charges of promoting enmity, rioting, assault, criminal force and murder.

The case pertains to an FIR registered at Dayalpur police station on the complaint of Ravinder Kumar, father of Ankit Sharma.

According to him, Ankit Sharma, who was posted with the Intelligence Bureau, had returned home from office on February 25, 2020, before stepping out again.

When he did not return for a long time, his family began searching for him, only to be informed by locals that his son had been killed and his body thrown into the Khajuri Khas drain near a mosque in the Chand Bagh pulia area.

Sharma's body was subsequently recovered from the drain.

In his complaint, Ravinder Kumar alleged that his son was murdered by the then AAP councillor Hussain and others. It said they had allegedly assembled at Hussain's office, and Ankit's body was disposed of after the murder.

Hussain was suspended by the Aam Aadmi Party after his name came up in the case.

On March 24, 2023, a Delhi court framed charges against Hussain and 10 others.