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The Economic Times
The Economic Times

'Sense of justice' but fight not over, Ankit Sharma's family seeks 'rarest of rare' punishment for former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain & four others

New Delhi: The verdict brought relief, but not the brother they lost, the family of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma said on Friday after former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others were sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots.

A Delhi court on Friday sentenced Hussain and four others to life imprisonment after convicting them for Sharma's murder. Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh, while pronouncing the sentence, said the prosecution had failed to establish that the convicts were beyond the possibility of reformation.

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