Onkar Singh / New Delhi
A Delhi court today awarded life imprisonment to former television serial producer Suhaib Ilyasi for killing his wife Anju 17 years ago.
Additional Sessions Judge S K Malhotra also imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Ilyasi, who was convicted on 16th December for stabbing to death his wife.
The court also directed that Rs 10 lakh would be paid as compensation to the parents of Anju. Earlier, Ilyasi was only charged with milder sections including 304 B (dowry death) of the IPC.
However, Anju’s mother Rukma Singh and sister Rashmi Singh moved the Delhi High Court which in August 2014 ruled that Ilyasi would be tried under Section 302 for the offence of murder.
Ilyasi, who had shot into limelight after hosting TV crime show – ‘India’s Most Wanted’, was arrested on 28th March, 2000 and later charges were framed against him in the case after his sister-in-law and mother-in-law alleged that he used to torture his wife for dowry.
The trial court rejected this demand but the Delhi High Court ordered the east Delhi court in 2014 to try him for murder as well.
Ilyasi’s career as a producer and host of India’s Most Wanted was at its peak in 2000 when Anju died.
The crime busting television show was India’s first on criminals on the run. After his arrest and subsequent release, Ilyasi launched another show but it didn’t work.
He later launched a magazine, Bureaucracy Today, on civil servants and governance issues that was published from a mosque on Delhi’s upscale Kasturba Gandhi Marg where his father was the top cleric.
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