Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Tahir Hussain and four others have been convicted by a local court for killing an Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer during the riots in northeast Delhi in February 2020. The body of IB officer Ankit Sharma, 26, was found in a drain on February 26 amid the communal violence. Hussain and the four others – Javed, Anas, Nazim and Kasim – have been convicted for murder and rioting, among other charges. The court, however, acquitted them of the charge of criminal conspiracy. Six others were also acquitted due to lack of evidence.
