New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday issued notices to the CBI on giving clean chit to Congress MP Jagdish Tytler on his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
The court has told the CBI that it cannot give a clean chit to Tytler till the hearing in the case is not over.
The next date of hearing is on November 29. The notice was issued following a petition filed by the counsel for the Justice of Carnage Committee.
The CBI had earlier filed a closure report in the case against Tytler.
Nearly 3,000 Sikhs were massacred in systematic riots, which started after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two of her Sikh security guards on October 31, 1984. It’s alleged that the riots were planned and led by Congress activists.
Tytler was accused of instigating rioters in Delhi, but later the CBI found it very difficult to take his investigations further.
The Justice Nanavati Commission which probed the riots said in 2005 that that there is “credible evidence” against Tytler and Kumar and recommended further action against them.
Tytler resigned as Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs after the commission made its report public. The report also led to the Government asking the CBI to investigate seven riot cases.
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