Tahir Hussain gives first public reaction after being sentenced to life in prison

Tahir Hussain's political fall in IB officer Ankit Sharma murder caseNEW DELHI: Former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain on Friday said he would challenge his conviction and life sentence in the Delhi High Court after a Delhi court sentenced him and four others to life imprisonment for the murder of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma during the 2020 northeast Delhi riots."I will get justice from the High Court," Hussain told reporters after the Karkardooma Court pronounced the sentence.Additional sessions Judge Praveen Singh sentenced Hussain along with co-convicts Shah Alam, Mehtab, Gul Firoz and Mohammad Riyan after hearing arguments on the quantum of punishment. While the Delhi Police had sought the death penalty, calling the murder a "rarest of rare" case, the court held that the