‘Implicated to satisfy public anger’: Ex-AAP leader moves HC against IB staffer murder conviction
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Former Aam Aadmi Party councillor Tahir Hussain has moved the Delhi High Court against his conviction for the murder of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 riots in the national capital, Bar and Bench reported on Wednesday.
On July 31, Hussain was sentenced to life imprisonment in the case.
Sharma was killed by a mob during the violence, and his body had been dumped in a drain.
In his appeal before the High Court, Hussain alleged that the investigation against him had been tainted from the start and was aimed at implicating him to satisfy public anger.
“Witnesses have been planted, statements of genuine eyewitnesses manipulated and the actual perpetrators have not been brought to book,” Bar and Bench quoted Hussain as saying in his appeal.
On July 13, a sessions court had convicted Hussain for murder, rioting, disobedience to an order promulgated by a public servant, promoting enmity between groups, rioting armed with a deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, and kidnapping or abducting with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine a person.
However, it cleared him of a criminal conspiracy charge.
In February 2020, violence broke out in northeast Delhi between supporters of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and those opposing it. The violence left 53 people dead and hundreds injured. Most of those killed were Muslims.
Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.
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