New Delhi: Absconding AAP councillor Tahir Hussain was arrested by Delhi Police on Thursday after a court here dismissed his plea seeking to surrender before it in connection with alleged killing of Intelligence Bureau (IB) official Ankit Sharma during the recent violence in northeast Delhi.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vishal Pahuja refused to entertain Hussain’s plea saying that the relief sought by him was outside the court’s
Advocate Mukesh Kalia, appearing for Hussain, said he has no connection or involvement in the FIR registered by the police and he is being falsely implicated.
As the court dismissed Hussain’s plea, a Delhi Police team, which had already arrived, arrested him and took him into custody. Hussain moved the surrender application before the court saying that he was willing to join the investigation and wanted to surrender in the case. Hussain has been booked in the murder case of the IB staffer in northeast Delhi amid violence over the new citizenship law last week. Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had then suspended him for alleged involvement in the violence. The family of Sharma (26), who was found dead in a drain near his home in northeast Delhi’s riot-hit Chand Bagh area, has accused Hussain of being behind the killing. On the complaint of Sharma’s father, the police registered an FIR against Hussain, who has rejected the charge.
Death toll 44
Officials put the death toll in northeast Delhi’s communal violence at 44 on Thursday.
However, it is yet to be confirmed whether three bodies at the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital and five at the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital were related to the communal violence or not.
“The death toll stands at 44. We are still waiting for figures from the police,” North East Delhi District Magistrate Shashi Kaushal said. More than 200 people were injured in northeast Delhi’s communal violence last month. The police also confirmed that the death toll stood at 44.
“The death toll in the northeast Delhi violence stands at 44,” Additional PRO, Delhi Police, Anil Mittal said. (PTI)
