Life Term For Suhaib Ilyasi Of ‘India’s Most Wanted’ Fame For Wife’s Murder

A Delhi court on Wednesday awarded life term to Suhaib Ilyasi, who was held guilty last week of murdering his wife 17 years ago, besides imposing a fine of Rs 2 lakh on the former TV producer who once shot to fame with his show ‘India’s Most Wanted’.

Additional sessions judge S K Malhotra has sentenced Suhaib to life imprisonment.

He was also directed to pay Rs 10 lakh as compensation to the family of his wife, Anju.

The sentencing comes after 17 years of protracted trial which saw Ilyasi being booked for murder after Anju’s sister Rashmi and their mother Rukma moved the high court.

On Saturday, Ilyasi was found guilty for murdering Anju in the year 2000 at their east Delhi’s residence. Anju was rushed to the hospital with multiple stab wounds. Ilyasi was arrested later.

At first, Anju’s family gave him a clean chit, but later, Anju’s sister Rashmi spoke out that Ilyasi used to harass her for dowry. The trial in the case proceeded on the charges of murder after the Delhi High Court in 2014 allowed the prosecution to frame additional charge of murder. Anju’s mother Rukma Singh had also urged that he be tried for murder.

"The prima facie material collected by the prosecution justifies the framing of additional charge under Section 302 (murder) of IPC,” the high court had said.

Ilyasi, who had been facing trial for the past 14 years under comparatively milder sections, including 304B (dowry death) of the IPC, had also moved the court against a fresh medical panel to ascertain the nature of Anju’s death, but he failed to get relief.