TV anchor Suhaib Ilyasi acquitted in wife's murder case
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Published: Oct 05, 2018, 05:27 IST | Updated: Oct 05, 2018, 05:27 IST
Suhaib Ilyasi
Delhi High Court on Friday acquitted TV anchor and producerSuhaib Ilyasi in the murder case of his wife.
Earlier, a trial court had sentenced him to life term for the murder.
Ilyasi approached the Delhi High Court challenging the trial court order.
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Ilyasi, the former host of the popular crime show "India's Most Wanted", was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court on December 20, 2017 for the murder of his wife Anju 17 years ago.
The court said Ilyasi "committed her murder and gave it a colour of suicide".
Right after the verdict, Ilyasi, 51, shouted that he was innocent and that the conviction was an "injustice".
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Ilyasi was earlier charged under milder sections of the IPC, including 304 B (dowry death).
Anju's mother and sister Rashmi Singh had moved the Delhi High Court which in August 2014 ruled that Ilyasi would be tried for murder.