1984 riots: Court reserves order in Tytler case
Thursday, April, 04 2013 - punjab newsline
NEW DELHI: On plea filed by victim of 1984 anti-sikh riot for seeking further probe by CBI, Delhi court has reserved its order for 10 April.
After hearing the final arguments of the victim and CBI, Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj, Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) of the Delhi court reserved the order.
The order is made for the case which involved killing of 3 persons and for which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has been given a clean chit by the agency.
"Arguments concluded. Fix it for order on April 10," the court said.
Sanjay Kumar, CBI prosecutor sought dismissal of the plea filed by the victim saying the probe has made it clear that Tytler was not present on November 1, 1984 at Gurudwara Pulbangash in North Delhi where three people were killed during the riots.
The prosecutor said at the time of the incident, Tytler was at Teen Murti Bhawan, the residence of the then late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
"The CBI has already re-investigated the case on the order of trial court but there was no sufficient evidence against Tytler," the prosecutor said.
Senior advocate H S Phoolka, appearing for petitioner Lakhwinder Kaur, countered CBI's submissions saying there was material which the agency has ignored and evidence was also there before the trial court, which had accepted the closure report giving a clean chit to the Congress leader in the case.
"CBI had time to examine Tytler's driver, who had deposed in his favour, but they had no time to record the statement of the witnesses who had seen Tytler at the spot of incident. Are they (CBI) investigating on the command of Tytler?," he said.
CBI had given a clean chit to Tytler on April 2, 2009 claiming lack of evidence against him in the case pertaining to the murder of three persons on November 1, 1984, in the aftermath of the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
(with agencies inputs)
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