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A Delhi tribunal connected Thursday (June 4, 2026) deferred its verdict successful the sensational execution lawsuit of Intelligence Bureau serviceman Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots for June 11.
Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh was proceeding the lawsuit against 11 accused, including erstwhile AAP councillor Tahir Hussain, and deferred the pronouncement of his judgment.
The lawsuit pertains to an FIR registered astatine Dayalpur constabulary presumption connected the ailment of Ravinder Kumar, begetter of Ankit Sharma. According to the complaint, Sharma, who was posted with the Intelligence Bureau, had returned location from bureau connected February 25, 2020, earlier stepping retired again.
When helium did not instrumentality for a agelong time, his household began searching for him, lone to beryllium informed by locals that their lad had been killed and his assemblage thrown into the Khajuri Khas drain adjacent a mosque successful the Chand Bagh Pulia area.
Sharma's assemblage was subsequently recovered from the drain.
In his complaint, Mr, Kumar alleged that his lad was murdered by erstwhile AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and others. It said they had allegedly assembled astatine Mr. Hussain's office, and Ankit's assemblage was disposed of aft the murder.
On March 24, 2023, a Delhi tribunal framed charges against Hussain and 10 others.
The different accused see Haseen alias Mullaji alias Salman, Nazim, Kasim, Sameer Khan, Anas, Firoz, Javed, Gulfam, Shoaib Alam alias Bobby, and Muntajim alias Musa.
The accused were charged nether Indian Penal Code sections pertaining to rioting, rioting equipped with deadly weapons, promoting enmity betwixt groups, execution and transgression conspiracy. Mr. Hussain was additionally charged with abetment and statements conducive to nationalist mischief.
The lawsuit stems from the communal unit that erupted successful northeast Delhi successful February 2020 during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
The clashes, marked by incidents of stone-pelting, arson and vandalism, had near 53 radical dormant and respective others injured.
