On February 26, Delhi Police registered a First Information Report against Aam Aadmi Party councillor from Nehru Vihar, Tahir Hussain, for ...
On February 26, Delhi Police registered a First Information Report against Aam Aadmi Party councillor from Nehru Vihar, Tahir Hussain, for allegedly being involved in the killing of Intelligence Bureau staffer, Ankit Sharma.
This is the first – and so far, only – FIR to have been filed against a leader of a political party in relation to the violence that ravaged Delhi since February 24, leaving more than 40 people dead.
The FIR was lodged on the basis of a complaint by Sharma’s father who accused Hussain of being behind his son’s murder. “I fully believe that Tahir Hussain and the people assembled at his office killed my son and dumped his body in the drain from the masjid,” the complaint states.
Sharma’s body was recovered from a drain near his home in Khajuri Khas in North East Delhi on February 26. According to the FIR, Sharma’s body had several stab injuries and it states that an attempt was made to make him unidentifiable as several parts of his body were burnt.
Caught on tape?
The FIR follows multiple videos that emerged online showing people on the roof of a building hurling stones and petrol bombs towards the street below. The building, barely a few metres from where Sharma’s...
