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        THE TANDOOR MURDER CASE









              Author's Corner


                                                           Introduction



                                                           Sushil  Sharma  was  a  born  politician.  He
                                                           was born into a middle-class family, where

                                                           his  father  was  a  bank  employee.  He  was
                                                           involved  in  politics  from  his  college  days
                                                           and  was  an  active  member  of  a  political

                                                           party.  From  the  student  workers  of  the
                                                           Congress  Party,  he  was  known  as

                                                           “CHAKUMAAR”.  Sushil  Sharma  is  a
                 Name: Benita C.B                          youth  leader  of  the  Indian  National


                                                           Congress.  He  was  convicted  by  the  trial
                                                           court, Delhi High Court & Supreme Court

                                                           for  the  murder  of  his  wife,  Naina  Sahni.
                                                           He owned a 0.32 revolver, and it was later
         Victim                                            abducted by the rival parties. He rose from

                                                           the  student’s  union  president  of  Delhi
         Naina Sahni, a 29–year–old woman
                                                           University  Satyawati  College  in  1977  to
         born  into  a  middle-class  family,
                                                           Delhi  Pradesh  Youth  Congress  chief.  He
         was extremely interested in politics;
                                                           was a dedicated politician.
         her  father  was  a  shopkeeper  at  an

         ordnance  store,  and  her  friend's
         family  claimed  that  she  was  not  a

         person  who  is  dominated  by  her               Investigation
         husband. When she was studying in

         Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College                   The  police  patrol  team  saw  thick  smoke
         in  Delhi,  she  was  the  All  India             coming out of the restaurant. The team of
         Girls’ convener of NSUI, but later                two  police  constables  approached  the

         she  left  politics  to  obtain  a  pilot’s       security  guard  of  the  Ashok  yatri  niwas
         license. But soon she came back to                hotel.  The  security  guard  told  them  that

         politics  as  the  general  secretary  of         they were burning the election posters, and
         the Delhi Youth National Congress                 it  would  be  done  soon.  But  soon  they

         in 1988. Four years later, she                    heard a woman scream “fire,” and when
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