New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has filed a closure report in the 1984 anti-sikh riots case giving a clean chit to accused Jagdish Tytler. The closure report was filed in December 2014 but the court has not yet taken cognisance of the matter.
Protesting against the clean chit to Tytler, senior lawyer and petitioner HS Phoolka said, "it's very unfortunate that CBI has silently filed a closure report and given clean chit to Jagdish Tytler on December 24, 2014. We will file our protest application in the concerned court and oppose the clean chit to Tytler."
Tytler was among the three prominent leaders named in the reports on 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which nearly 3000 Sikhs were killed. The riots were triggered with the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday restrained a trial court from taking any decision in the defamation case against Tytler on a complaint filed by a senior advocate representing the victims in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. The trial court had framed charges against Tytler in the case on March 2, 2015 saying he had prime facie defamed Phoolka, the complainant in the matter, by allegedly making imputations to harm his reputation.
The counsel appearing for Tytler argued that the basis on which the trial court had framed charges in the defamation case was a video cassette obtained from a private TV channel. "The said video cassette was not certified as mandated under Indian Evidence Act and various Supreme Court rulings," the counsel said.
In his complaint filed in 2006, Phoolka had alleged that Tytler had levelled "false and derogatory" allegations against him to harm his reputation in the society during the TV debate aired in September 2004. The complaint against Tytler was initially filed in a Ludhiana court in Punjab.
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