The Delhi high court has ordered stay on trial court proceedings against TV serial producer Suhaib Ilyasi, accused in the dowry death case of his wife, on a plea for trying him formurder charge.
Justice Kailash Gambhir in his order said, ‘The trial court proceedings are stayed till further orders,’ and posted the matter for 22 August. The trial court was scheduled to hear the final arguments in the case on Saturday.
The court passed the order after recording the submission of complainant Rukma Singh’s counsel that the court should stay the trial court proceeding till it decided the plea for graver charge of murdering against Ilyasi for Anju’s death.
Challenging the trial court’s 19 February 2011 order dismissing her application to try him under the penal provision of murder, Singh said her son-in-law (Suhaib) has been facing charge of killing his wife for dowry under Section 304 of IPC, which attracts much lesser punishment.
Singh relied upon the statement of Dr L C Gupta, who had conducted the post-mortem and contradicted his earlier findings after more than one and half years saying homicide cannot be ruled out.
Gupta had earlier stated in his report to police that injuries inflicted upon Anju were self inflicted and suicidal in nature.
Earlier, the trial court had rejected Singh’s plea to invoke additional murder charge against her son-in-law Ilyasi, saying no fresh evidence has emerged against him. The high court also clubbed Ilyasi’s plea challenging the proceedings of a medical board constituted by police to examine him afresh the reasons of his wife Anju’s death in 2000. Ilyasi had shot into limelight after hosting the TV serial, India’s Most Wanted.
Justice Kailash Gambhir in his order said, ‘The trial court proceedings are stayed till further orders,’ and posted the matter for 22 August. The trial court was scheduled to hear the final arguments in the case on Saturday.
The court passed the order after recording the submission of complainant Rukma Singh’s counsel that the court should stay the trial court proceeding till it decided the plea for graver charge of murdering against Ilyasi for Anju’s death.
Challenging the trial court’s 19 February 2011 order dismissing her application to try him under the penal provision of murder, Singh said her son-in-law (Suhaib) has been facing charge of killing his wife for dowry under Section 304 of IPC, which attracts much lesser punishment.
Singh relied upon the statement of Dr L C Gupta, who had conducted the post-mortem and contradicted his earlier findings after more than one and half years saying homicide cannot be ruled out.
Gupta had earlier stated in his report to police that injuries inflicted upon Anju were self inflicted and suicidal in nature.
Earlier, the trial court had rejected Singh’s plea to invoke additional murder charge against her son-in-law Ilyasi, saying no fresh evidence has emerged against him. The high court also clubbed Ilyasi’s plea challenging the proceedings of a medical board constituted by police to examine him afresh the reasons of his wife Anju’s death in 2000. Ilyasi had shot into limelight after hosting the TV serial, India’s Most Wanted.