CBI chargesheet against Tytlerin 1984 anti-Sikh riots case

 

 

THE CBI on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the Pul Bangash case of killing of three persons and torching of a gurudwara during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, officials said. Tytler “incited, instigated and provoked the mob assembled at Pul Bangash Gurudwara Azad Market” on November 1, 1984 that resulted in burning down of the gurudwara and killing of three Sikhs -- Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Gurcharan Singh -- the CBI alleged in its chargesheet filed before a special court here.

The agency has invoked charges under IPC sections 147 (rioting), 148, 149 (unlawful assembly), 153A (provocation), 109 (abetment) read with 302 (murder), 295 (defiling of religious places) among others. The court will take cognisance of the charges on June 2, they said. Former Union Minister Tytler was accused of inciting a mob that murdered the victims. However, the CBI filed three closure reports which were rejected by the special court. The agency had recently collected voice samples of Tytler, who was named in the Nanavati Commission report that probed the riots. The case pertains to the riots at Gurudwara Pul Bangash in north Delhi, where three people were killed on Nov. 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then Pm Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards at her official residence.