Tandoor Murder Case


In the year 1999 the city and vicinity of Delhi was rocked and shocked by the infamous Tandoor Murder Case. The victim Naina Sahini was brutally murdered and burnt by her own husband Sushil Sharma, a Youth Congress leader and Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Delhi . Naina Sahini too was a Congress Party member and worker. She was murdered on 2 July , 1999.

Sushil Sharma had often objected to his wife Naina Sahni's friendship with a man named Matloob Karim. Matloob Karim and Naina Sahini were classmates and fellow Congress workers too. Sushil Sharma suspected Naina Sahini of having an illicit extramarital relationship with Matloob Karim. On the night of 2 July 1995, Sushil Sharma came home and saw Naina Sahini talking on the phone with someone and consuming alcohol simaltaneously. Naina Sahini, on seeing Sushil Sharma, hung up. Sushil Sharma redialed the phone to find Matloob Karim on the other end. Enraged, he fatally shot Naina Sahini dead. He took the body to a restaurant called Bagiya and tried to dispose it off with the help and assistance from the restaurant manager, Keshav Kumar. The body was put in a tandoor (clay oven) to burn and to turn to ashes. Police arrested Keshav Kumar but Sushil Sharma managed to flee. He surrendered to the police on 10 July 1995.  The case also involved the use of DNA evidence to establish the identity of the victim.

The first postmortem was conducted at LHMC Delhi, the cause of death was opined to be burn injuries. The second postmortem was ordered by Lieutenant Governor Delhi, which was conducted by a team of three doctors from three different hospitals headed by T D Dogra. They detected two bullets in head and neck region, opined cause of death due to firearm injuries. With that, the course of investigation changed and the actual story came to light. This case is a landmark citation for fruitful second autopsy. Delhi Police investigated the case and filed a charge sheet on 27 July 1995 in a Sessions Court. On 7 November 2003, Sushil Sharma was sentenced to death and restaurant manager, Keshav Kumar, was given seven years of rigorous imprisonment.

Sushil Sharma appealed against the District Court Judgement in Delhi High Court trial court judgement. The Delhi High Court upheld the lower courts' decision. In 2003, a city court awarded him death sentence which was later upheld by the Delhi High Court in 2007. In 2013, the SC commuted his death sentence stating that there was "no evidence" of Sushil Sharma chopping his wife’s body. On 8 October 2013, a three-judge bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justices Ranjana Desai and Ranjan Gogoi of the Supreme Court upheld Sushil Sharma's conviction. However, the court commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment because Sharma doesn't have a criminal antecedent and it is not a crime against society, but it is a crime committed by the accused due to a strained personal relationship with his wife.

On 21 December 2018, Delhi High Court ordered immediate release of Sushil Sharma. The case is a fine example of botched up autopsy and trials.


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