They planned to celebrate Anju's 30th birthday on 16 January with a grand party.
1966
Suhaib Ilyasi (born 8 September 1966) is an Indian television producer and director.
He was the host of the notable TV crime show India's Most Wanted.
He was the editor of the news magazine ''Bureaucracy Today'.
1989
Ilyasi met Anju at Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in Delhi, where both were studying at the Mass Communication Research Centre, in November 1989.
Anju's father was K. P. Singh, then head of metallurgy department.
1993
Both families were opposed to the relationship, however they got married in London in 1993 under the Special Marriage Act.
1994
They lived in London until October 1994.
Upon returning to India, Anju used to live in Ilyasi's house and returned to London after 6 months to her brother.
Her brother, Prashant, who was working in London at the time, later said that Anju was considering divorce at the time, but he convinced her to stay in the marriage.
In April 1994, Ilyasi came to London, the couple reconciled and they returned to India after a month.
The next year their daughter Aaliya was born.
During their stay in London, they had arrived at the idea of a television show similar to the British show Crimestoppers, which they named India's Most Wanted.
1998
Initially, Anju was the anchor in the television pilots, but by the time the show went on air on Zee TV in March 1998, Ilyasi had become the anchor.
Around this, Anju left again and went to her sister in Canada.
India's Most Wanted was initially planned for 52 episodes but it was renewed by Zee TV.
Later, Ilyasi moved the show to Doordarshan under the name Fugitive Most Wanted.
Zee TV which owned the copyright continued to produce India's Most Wanted and Manoj Raghuvanshi became the host.
Ilyasi went to Canada in October 1998 to persuade her to return.
IIyasi converted his software firm Aaliya Productions, into a private limited company and put 25% shares in Anju's name.
1999
Anju returned in February 1999.
They bought a new apartment at the same time in Mayur Vihar, in east Delhi, for ₹1500000 and spent 10 months redecorating.
They moved into the house in December 1999.
2000
After his wife died in 2000, Ilyasi was charged under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code for dowry death.
He also got involved in a legal battle with his in-laws for the custody of his daughter.
Ilyasi was acquitted in the case, while the charges 498A and 304B were also not proven and Ilyasi was discharged for the aforesaid charges in the trial court.
Later, he was charged with murdering his wife after 14 years of the incident.
On 10 January 2000, Ilyasi called two police constables who were guarding his house at 11:15pm, and told them that his wife had stabbed herself and asked them to call an ambulance.
The policemen were there because Ilyasi had claimed that he was getting death threats from the underworld due to his show.
Anju was taken to a nearby nursing home and later to the AIIMS, New Delhi, where she was declared dead on arrival.
Anju Ilyasi had died from excessive internal bleeding, which were described as self-inflicted in the initial forensic report, ruling out murder.
The Central Forensic Science Laboratory report said that six fingerprint characters were found but 13 were required to match it to a person.
Both the stab wounds were downwards and backwards, left to right on the accessible parts of the abdomen.
The T-shirt she was wearing was not torn as it was sweater like shirt.
Ilyasi claimed that they were having an argument recently.
He was playing with his daughter in another room, when Anju picked up an imported butcher's knife and stabbed herself.
2017
On December 20, 2017, he was convicted for the murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
2018
On 5 October 2018, Delhi High Court acquitted him, stating that there was no evidence against him on record to sustain the conviction.
Suhaib Ilyasi is the son of Jameel Ilyasi, who was the head of All India Imams Organisation and who was known to have close personal relations with the then RSS Chief Sanghchalak K. S. Sudarshan.
Suhaib Ilyasi is an elder brother of Imam Umer Ilyasi who is said to be close to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and present RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat.
