After his wife died in 2000, Ilyasi was charged under Section 304B of the Indian Penal Code for dowry death.
On 5 October 2018, Delhi High Court acquitted him, stating that there was no evidence against him on record to sustain the conviction.
[1] Ilyasi met Anju at Jamia Millia Islamia, a university in Delhi, where both were studying at the Mass Communication Research Centre, in November 1989.
Zee TV which owned the copyright continued to produce India's Most Wanted and Manoj Raghuvanshi became the host.
IIyasi converted his software firm Aaliya Productions, into a private limited company and put 25% shares in Anju's name.
They bought a new apartment at the same time in Mayur Vihar, in east Delhi, for ₹1,500,000 and spent 10 months redecorating.
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.
On 15 February 2000, his wife's sister, Rashmi Singh, who ran a Montessori school, arrived from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
After month, Rashmi filed a police complaint saying that Anju was tortured for dowry and that she was driven to suicide.
He was asked to submit his passport, not moved out of Delhi without permission, and not threaten the witness or tamper with evidence.
[12] In 2005, Rukma Singh appeal to a session court that a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe be started on the case.
[13] In August 2010, Rukma's counsel told the court that additional murder charges (Section 302 of Indian Penal Code) should be added to the case.
[14] Ilyasi argued that the doctor cannot be relied upon because he was later transferred from the mortuary department after allegation of unprofessional work.
The sessions court rejected the plea for additional murder charges in February 2011 after finding no new material in the case.
On 20 December 2017, Ilyasi was convicted of murdering his wife by a Delhi court, which sentenced him to life imprisonment.
[20] On 5 October 2018, Delhi High Court acquitted him, stating that there was no evidence against him on record to sustain the conviction.
Shri Prakash Shukla, a wanted hitman featured on the show, was killed by police.
Zee TV, which owned the copyright, continued to produce India's Most Wanted and Manoj Raghuvanshi became the host.
He produced, directed and acted in another film, Kamyab Rasta (2004) called, co-starring Poonam Dariyanani.
[32] In 2012, Yeh Zindagi Hai Gulshan, a TV serial produced by Ilyasi, was broadcast by Doordarshan.
[33] Suhaib Ilyasi recently released his feature film ‘Shaadi, Dahej & Gangster’ on OTT.