New Delhi: A Delhi court has listed for July 19 to decide on CBI’s charge sheet filed against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
During the last hearing, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vidhi Anand Gupta of a special MP-MLA court had summoned the in-charge of the record room of a trial court in the case.
Gupta summoned the in-charge of the record room, along with the case file, from Karkardooma Court.
Hence, the judge also directed the court staff this time to check whether the case records, received from another court which was earlier hearing the case, is complete in all respects and file a report by July 19.
On June 2, the Rouse Avenue Courts had approved a supplementary charge sheet filed by the CBI against Tytler in the riots case and also transferred the case to the special MP-MLA court for trial.
The court had earlier also instructed the CBI to expedite the process of obtaining the forensic report of Tytler’s voice sample.
Senior advocate H.S. Phoolka, representing the riot victims, had requested the court to accelerate the FSL report process.
The Congress leader was named in the charge sheet following fresh evidence against him.
In April, the central probe agency had collected Tytler’s voice sample in connection with the violence in the national capital’s Pul Bangash area in 1984, where three people were killed. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob that murdered the victims.
On November 22, 2005, the CBI had registered the case on an incident wherein Gurdwara Pul Bangash at Azad Market, Delhi, was set on fire by a mob on Novermber 1, 1984 and three persons, namely Sardar Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Gurcharan Singh, were burnt to death.
“The Justice Nanavati Commission was set up in 2000 by the Centre to probe the incidents of anti-Sikh riots of 1984 in Delhi. After consideration of the Commission’s report, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued directions to CBI to investigate the case against then Member of Parliament and others,” a CBI officer had said.
(IANS)
