{"id":307381,"date":"2018-12-21T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307381"},"modified":"2018-12-21T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T16:25:46","slug":"tandoor-murder-case-delhi-hc-orders-immediate-release-of-convict-sushil-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tandoor-murder-case-delhi-hc-orders-immediate-release-of-convict-sushil-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Tandoor murder case: Delhi HC orders immediate release of convict Sushil Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307382 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sushil-verma-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sushil-verma-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sushil-verma.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the immediate release of\u00a0former youth congress leader Sushil\u00a0Sharma who was convicted for the murder of his wife Naina Sahni in 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Sharma killed Naina and then chopped her body into pieces and attempted to burn it in a restaurant oven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This led to Naina\u2019s murder being christened &#8216;tandoor murder&#8217; in the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court had on Wednesday expressed displeasure over Sharma\u2019s stay in jail\u00a0and asked authorities whether a person could be allowed to be kept in prison indefinitely for the offence of murder, even if he has already served the sentence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi government had earlier rejected Sharma\u2019s plea for early release, He then approached the Delhi High Court for relief. Sharma had told court he has been in jail for over 20 years and was entitled to early release.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the immediate release of\u00a0former youth congress leader Sushil\u00a0Sharma who was convicted for the murder of his wife Naina Sahni in 1995. According to the reports, Sharma killed Naina and then chopped her body into pieces and attempted to burn it in a restaurant oven. This led to Naina\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[10366,1594,10365,5427,10364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307381"}],"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=307381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307392,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307381\/revisions\/307392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}