'Most Wanted' host Suhaib Ilyasi convicted of wife's murder

The Karkardooma district court convicted Suhaib Ilyasi, anchor of the once popular television crime show 'India's Most Wanted', on Saturday for murdering his wife Anju Ilyasi in January 2000.

Additional sessions judge SK Malhotra held the former TV producer and founder-editor of 'Bureaucracy Today' magazine guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). The court will hear arguments to fix the quantum of his sentence on December 20.

Under IPC Section 302, Ilyasi faces a minimum life imprisonment sentence and a maximum death penalty. The trial court's verdict brings an end to the 17-year-old case.

Anju Ilyasi had died of stab wounds in a hospital. Initially, Ilyasi claimed that she committed suicide. His mother-in-law and sister-in-law, however, accused him of demanding dowry. He was booked under IPC Section 304B, related to dowry death.

It was on a plea by Anju's mother Rukma Singh that the Delhi High Court ordered framing of murder charges against Ilyasi in 2014.