Suhaib Ilyasi, convicted for his wife’s murder, gets life sentence

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ A Delhi court today sentenced former TV producer Suhaib Ilyasi life imprisonment for murder of his wife. The court had last week convicted Ilyasi of stabbing his wife to death 17 years ago. Ilyasi was declared guilty on the charge of murder.

Advocate Manu Sharma, who represented Ilyasi during the trial, said, “He has been convicted for murder… will not be able to comment further before reading the judgment.”

On January 11, 2000, Anju Ilyasi had been rushed to a hospital in Delhi with stab wounds which was ruled as the cause of her death that she purportedly received at her home in East Delhi. Suhaib was arrested in March following allegations by his mother-in-law and sister-in-law of torturing his wife for dowry.