After six years, a Delhi court on Monday convicted former AAP councillor Tahir Hussain and four others in connection with the sensational murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Ankit Sharma, who was killed during the northeast Delhi riots in 2020.Additional Sessions Judge Praveen Singh of Karkardooma Courts pronounced the order. The verdict on the sentence is expected next week.The judge also convicted four other men for the murder of Ankit Sharma, namely Javed, Anas, Nazim and Kasim. The court has acquitted other six accused persons in the case.According to the FIR, the IB officer had returned home from office on February 25, 2020, before stepping out. When he did not return for a long time, his family began searching for him. Locals later informed them that Ankit had been killed and his body thrown into the Khajuri Khas drain near a mosque in the Chand Bagh Pulia area.His body was subsequently recovered from the drain, the FIR stated.As per the chargesheet filed by Delhi Police Crime Branch, the riots and “murder” of IB officer Ankit Sharma during northeast Delhi violence as he was “specifically targeted” by a mob led by suspended AAP councillor Tahir Hussain.After killing Sharma, the mob had thrown his body in a nearby drain and was fished out the next day, police said.“A witness standing on a terrace had captured a video on his mobile phone, in which a group of persons are seen dumping the dead body in the drain. During post mortem, the doctors found 51 sharp and blunt injuries on Ankit’s body,” the charge sheet said.The chargesheet was filed under various sections of the IPC for the offences including murder (302), kidnapping (365), rioting (147 and 148), promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race etc. (153-A), criminal conspiracy (120-B) and destruction of evidence (201).Ten persons, including Tahir Hussain, were arrested in this case.“Investigation has revealed that there was a deep rooted conspiracy behind the riot and murder of Ankit Sharma, who was a familiar face in the area. He was specifically targeted by a mob led by Tahir Hussain, a politician of AAP and sitting councillor in EDMC, Delhi.“It has been found that Tahir Hussain is the main person who had been instigating the mob, both on February 24 and 25, in the Chand Bagh area,” the chargesheet said.It added that during the investigation, “the blood stained knife used to stab Ankit Sharma and the blood stained clothes of the killer (with Ankit’s blood) were recovered. Another knife used in the crime was also recovered. Tahir Hussain’s licensed pistol was seized in a separate case”.“An accused Haseen alias Salman was instrumental in the murder of Ankit. He is the person who had assaulted him with knife. During his interrogation, he revealed that he had heard about the killing of a 4-year-old Muslim Boy by a Hindu, he became angry and took a knife and along with his accomplices, Sameer, Kasim, Sabir and others came to the Chand Bagh Pulia on February 25,” the police said.The chargesheet read that “Salman further disclosed that he had stabbed Ankit Sharma a number of times with knife which he was carrying. His accomplices also stabbed with knife and hit him with dandas (sticks) and after killing him, threw his dead body in the nala”.During police custody remand, the weapon of offence, i.e., blood-stained knife and the blood-stained clothes of the accused worn at the time of incident were recovered at his instance from his house, it said.