Every man reaching the pinnacle of success one day falls from grace and acclaimed TV producer, Suhaib Ilyasi has been no different.
Convicted in the murder of his own wife, Suhaib shouted out loud in court that he was victim to injustice meted out to him.
While doing India’s Most Wanted Suhaib ilyasi was at the peak of his career but information reported in popular media suggests that he killed his wife fearing his better half could leak some really dark details.
Suhaib Ilyasi according to court feared she may make public his fraudulent acts and forgeries possibly a blot on his success story.
He will spend the rest of the time in Delhi’s Tihar Jail.
The court has imposed a fine of Rs 2 lakh on Ilyasi and ordered Rs 10 lakh compensation be paid to Anju’s parents.
While prosecution wanted death, the defence sought leniency given his code of conduct and his adherence to bail conditions. It also noted that the case did not fall in the rarest of rare category.
Anju’s mother Rukma Singh, has welcomed the judgement.
It was the tenth day of 2000 when Anju Ilyasi had to be rushed to the AIIMS from Mayur Vihar 1, with multiple stab wounds
Declared dead a day later, Ilyasi then a noted figure in the media claimed Anju had committed suicide after an argument.
By March 16 that year Anju’s sister Rashmi lodged a complaint claiming murder for dowry.
Police registering a case of dowry and dowry death nabbed Suhaib on March 28.
While Anju’s mother called for murder charges to be included it was dismissed in 2011. When the High Court’s doors were knocked, it ordered framing of murder charges against Ilyasi in August 2014. While Suhaib Ilyasi took the matter up with the SC calling for a breather the Apex court dismissed his plea.
While the court said that the details given by the former producer were misleading at the initial stages, it found no reason to charge Suhaib of death for dowry.
The court has made the observation in a detailed 125 page verdict.
Notably Ilyasi possessed two passports, used fake degree for job and had committed credit card fraud.
Observations by the court show that relation between Ilyasi and wife Anju were strained and his conduct too was “not cordial”.
Suhaib’s wife had made up her mind to leave him and settle down in Canada. The court meanwhile has clearly rubbished the claim of the convict that his wife committed suicide.
As per observations by the court, murder stands proven given that accused despite being in the same room failed to explain why there were no cut marks on clothes of victim and how blood reached bed, bathroom, sink and drain.
Suhaib was born to Jameel Ilyasi who in the past held the position of All India Imams Organisation as well as the imam of a mosque on Kasturba Gandhi Marg in Central Delhi. Suhaib met Anju during the formative years in Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University’s Mass Communication Research Centre in 1989.
Despite there being family disagreement on the marriage, the couple got married in London in 1993. Anju later changed her name to Afsan.
It was in 1991, that Ilyasi went to UK on a job assignment to work with TV Asia as a cameraperson. Ilyasi and Anju made a pilot for a crime show. It was taken by Zee TV.
Thus began his venture into TV as the host of India’s Most Wanted in March 1998.
Despite turbulent times and on the verge of getting divorced they reconciled in 1994. They had a daughter Aaliya.
IMW was a roaring success, what started off as a set of 52 episodes, Zee renewed the contract for additional episodes. The show broke new ground in crime reportage and storytelling.
By 1999 he had already started feeling the heat and he sought personal security. He featured in cameos in movies like Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani.
After Anju’s death, Ilyasi attempted to make a film on Sri Prakash Shukla but that failed.
He later made Kamyab Rasta in 2004 opposite Poonam Dariyanani.
His work with India TV saw several stings against the high and mighty including Aman Verma and Shakti Kapoor.
By March 2009 he turned entrepreneur with his magazine Bureaucracy Today as Editor-in-Chief and began work on other film projects including one called 498A, based on the dowry law section of IPC.
The Suhaib Ilyasi case had been hanging fire since the past 17 years.
17 years is a long time in a person’s life and for Suhaib llyasi this has been a period of several twists and turns vis a vis the law. As he spends his time in jail, one only realizes that power should not corrupt as a media professional. It also teaches you that one wrong call can at the end costs you heavy.
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