US-based Sikh group for probe into Tytler case
Friday, 12/04/2013
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New York: In the wake of a Delhi Court ordering the reopening of a case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler related to the 1984 anti-Sikh violence, a US-based Sikh group will seek a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe.
Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a New York-based human rights advocacy group, announced on Wednesday that it would file a writ petition before the Delhi High Court asking it to set up an SIT led by former Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Joginder Singh.
The petition will be based on the CBI’s conduct of disregarding the material evidence against Tytler, and refusing to record the testimony of witnesses which amounts to shielding the accused, it said. The SIT should be asked to investigate and depose former police commissioner Gautam Kaul, close associate of Gandhi family RK Dhawan and film star Amitabh Bachchan, who according to CBI’s closure report were in the company of Tytler on November 1, 1984 at Teen Murti Bhavan. The SFJ also circulated a joint statement by US-based witnesses Resham Singh and Jasbir Singh, saying they are willing to appear as witness in any court of law once murder charges are filed against Tytler for his role in killing of Sikhs in November 1984.
Additional Sessions Judge Anuradha Shukla Bajaj on Wednesday set aside CBI’s closure report which had given Tytler a clean chit, claiming there was no evidence against him.
