New Delhi, Tahir Hussain was a member of a heavily armed mob that assembled with "animus against Hindus" to commit rioting, loot and arson and murdered Ankit Sharma with a "savage and relentless assault", a Delhi court has said in its verdict convicting the former AAP councillor and four others for the sensational killing of the Intelligence Bureau officer during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots.
Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh, who acquitted Hussain and other convicts of the charge of criminal conspiracy (IPC Section 120B), said that while the damaged and diverted CCTV cameras in the area suggested that "a conspiracy might have been afoot", the prosecution failed to establish when, where and how such a conspiracy was hatched.
