New Delhi: In a relief to TV serial producer Suhaib Ilyasi, the Delhi High Court has stayed the proceedings of a medical board constituted to examine afresh the reasons of his wife Anju Ilyasi`s death in 2000.
Ilyasi, also the editor-in-chief of Bureaucracy Today magazine, has been facing trial as an accused for last 12 years in dowry death case of his wife Anju Ilyasi.
She had been rushed to a hospital on January 11, 2000 with fatal stab wounds allegedly received by her at her East Delhi residence.
"Issue notice to respondent department (Delhi police) for March 14. Meanwhile, the (medical) board proceedings have been stayed," Justice Kailash Gambhir said.
Ilyasi, who had shot into limelight after hosting TV serial on crime, `India`s Most Wanted,` alleged even after the lapse of over 12 years when the trial is at its fag end, police, without getting sanction from the lower court, constituted a medical board to examine afresh the reasons of his wife`s death.
The previous medical board had given split opinion on her death, Ilyasi`s counsel said, adding that "the formation of another board was an act of contempt."
Ilyasi also alleged that a police officer, who was one of the investigating officers in the case, still "interferes" with the judicial and enquiry processes despite the fact that he is deployed as DCP in the Prime Minister`s security contingent.
The trial court would shortly start hearing final arguments in the case in which penal provisions relating to dowry death and subjecting a woman to cruelty have been invoked against Ilyasi.
Earlier, a trial court had rejected Anju`s mother Rukma Singh`s plea to invoke additional murder charge against her son-in-law Ilyasi, saying no fresh evidence has emerged against him.
The court had also noted that there was no proof to support the allegation that Ilyasi had tampered with evidence.
Prior to this also, the court had rejected a similar plea.
Ilyasi was arrested on March 28, 2000 and later, charges were framed against him in the case after his sister-in-law and mother-in-law alleged that he used to torture his wife for dowry.
PTI
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