2020 Delhi riots: Life term for ex-AAP leader Tahir Hussain, court says case doesn't warrant death penalty - CNBC TV18

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42% : The judge awarded the sentence after hearing arguments on the quantum of sentence and denied the state contention to award death penalty to the convicts, saying the prosecution was not able to prove that they were beyond reformation.
39% : A Delhi court on Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four co-convicts to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Delhi riots, saying the case did not fall within the "rarest of rare" category warranting the death penalty.
38% : Earlier, Delhi Police had sought death penalty for all the five accused, saying they fell to the "level of being animals" while relentlessly assaulting Sharma.
37% : A Delhi court on Friday sentenced former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four coconvicts to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 Delhi riots, saying the case did not fall within the "rarest of rare" category warranting the death penalty.
31% : "The final test that law requires me to undertake before I conclude that this case invites capital punishment is whether the convicts are beyond redemption and there being no chance of reformation, it is now firmly established in our criminal jurisprudence that death penalty is of the last absorption," the judge said.

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