New Delhi, May 6 -- The Delhi high court on Monday sought response of the Delhi Police to a bail plea filed by former councillor Tahir Hussain in a 2020 murder case during the northeast Delhi riots. Hussain is one of the accused in the murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma during the riots. At the time of the incident, he was an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) councillor. A bench of justice Neena Bansal Krishna issued notice to the Delhi Police and fixed July 17 as the next date of hearing. htc

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