New Delhi | The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the immediate release of former Youth Congress leader Sushil Sharma in the 1995 Tandoor murder case.
Acting on the habeas corpus plea of Sushil Sharma, the bench of Justice Siddarth Mridul and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said, “There was no recovery of weapon like chopper which could suggest that Sushil Sharma had cut the dead body.” The bench further added that Sushil Sharma has remain incarcerated for the period of 25 years including remission till date. It is further an admitted position that Sushil Sharma has old age infirm parents well into their 80s in need of successor, attention and support of him in that twilight years.
The Court had earlier asked the Delhi government why former youth Congress leader Sushil Kumar Sharma, serving life term in the 1995 murder case of his wife Naina Sahni, has not been released after having undergone 29 years of incarceration.
The bench had said that “life and liberty of any individual is of paramount consideration” and asked the Delhi government how someone can be kept in custody “indefinitely”. Sharma, in prison since 1995, has contended that he has already undergone the maximum prescribed sentence as mandated under the SRB guidelines.
Sushil Sharma had shot dead his wife in 1995 objecting to her alleged relationship with a male friend. He had then chopped her body into pieces and attempted to burn it in a restaurant oven. Known as the tandoor murder case, it is one of the landmark cases in India in which DNA evidence and a second autopsy were used to establish the guilt of the accused.
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