Suhaib Ilyasi: India TV crime host acquitted of wife's murder Published duration 5 October 2018

image copyright Sonu Mehta/ Hindustan Times image caption Suhaib Ilyasi was first arrested in March 2000

A court in India's capital Delhi has acquitted the host of a popular TV crime series who had been jailed for murdering his wife in 2000.

Mr Ilyasi was jailed for life in 2017 and appealed against his conviction.

He argued that his wife killed herself. Her family had accused him of torturing her to extract more dowry money.

Anju Ilyasi's death was treated as suicide until her mother demanded that Mr Ilyasi be tried for murder.

Giving a dowry has been illegal in India since 1961, but the practice still takes place in most arranged marriages.