{"id":303794,"date":"2018-10-05T08:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303794"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:45:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:45:43","slug":"delhi-hc-acquits-former-tv-anchor-suhaib-ilyasi-in-his-wifes-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-hc-acquits-former-tv-anchor-suhaib-ilyasi-in-his-wifes-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: HC acquits former TV anchor Suhaib Ilyasi in his wife\u2019s murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303810 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ilyasi-700x400-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/ilyasi-700x400-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/ilyasi-700x400-696x398.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/ilyasi-700x400.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi High Court on Friday acquitted former TV anchor and producer Suhaib Ilyasi, who was sentenced to life in jail for the murder of his wife Anju, 18 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A Bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel allowed the appeal of Ilyasi, 52, challenging his conviction and life imprisonment for killing his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere was no evidence against him, moreover the prosecution failed to establish the murder charges,\u201d the Bench said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On December 20, 2017, the trial court had sentenced Ilyasi to life term for stabbing his wife to death, saying he \u201ccommitted murder and gave it a colour of suicide\u201d. It also asked him to pay\u00a0Rs.\u00a010 lakh to his wife&#8217;s parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Suhaib Ilyasi, who had shot into limelight after hosting TV crime show &#8211; &#8216;India&#8217;s Most Wanted&#8217;, was arrested on March 28, 2001. Charges were framed against him after his wife\u2019s family alleged that he used to torture his wife for dowry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Friday acquitted former TV anchor and producer Suhaib Ilyasi, who was sentenced to life in jail for the murder of his wife Anju, 18 years ago. A Bench of Justice S Muralidhar and Justice Vinod Goel allowed the appeal of Ilyasi, 52, challenging his conviction and life imprisonment for killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[1594,5436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303811,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303794\/revisions\/303811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}