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Not enough proof against Tytler: CBI

Jagdish Tytler

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday submitted in a trial court here that it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute the former Union Minister, Jagdish Tytler, in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case.

The court will consider the matter on April 9.

The CBI counsel submitted that it had filed the cancellation report and wanted to close the probe.

The agency made the submission after it found the statements of witnesses Jasbir Singh and Surender Singh “inconsistent, unreliable and unworthy of credit.”

“The other witnesses had categorically refuted the claims made by Jasbir Singh and Surender Singh,” the CBI said.

Earlier, the court ordered opening of the sealed cover of the final report filed by the CBI on March 28.

Raising objections over the alleged leak of the report to Mr. Tytler, counsel for the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee H.S. Phoolka alleged that the CBI seemed to be hand in glove with the accused, who claimed that he had been given ‘a clean chit.’

The case against Mr. Tytler was registered on November 1, 1984, at the Bara Hindu Rao police station.

A relieved Mr. Tytler, who is the Congress candidate from North-East Delhi for the coming Lok Sabha elections, said: “My prayers have been answered finally. My family and I have gone through tough times in the past 25 years. I have not been named in any of the cases pertaining to the 1984 riots, but my political opponents got my name entangled in them. A section of the media also projected me as an accused without any basis. However, the CBI has now given me a clean chit.”

Earlier in the morning, several members of the Sikh community gathered outside the court premises shouting slogans.

The protesters under the aegis of the Delhi Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) also staged a demonstration near the 10 Janpath residence of Congress president Sonia Gandhi against the CBI’s ‘clean chit’ to Mr. Tytler. They shouted slogans against the party for fielding Mr. Tytler and Sajjan Kumar. Several protesters were detained and later released by the police.

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