Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, August 1: In connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, Congress leader Jagdish Tytler filed an anticipatory bail motion in Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was given notice by the court regarding the situation.
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler received a summons from Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court last week.
The court summoned Jagdish Tytler and ordered him to appear in court on August 5 after taking note of the Central Bureau of Investigation’s chargesheet that was brought against Tytler.
The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a charge sheet against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on May 20 in a case involving anti-Sikh riots that broke out in 1984 after the assassination of India’s then Prime Minister on October 31, 1984.
The chargesheet names Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, a former Member of Parliament, as an accused.
In a statement, the CBI noted that the agency had opened the current case in November 2005 regarding an incident in which a mob set fire to Gurudwara Pul Bangash in Azad Market, Bara Hindu Rao, Delhi, and three people Sardar Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Gurcharan Singh were killed by burns on November 1, 1984, close to Gurudwara Pul Bangash.
The Justice Nanavati Commission of Inquiry was established by the Indian government in 2000 to investigate the anti-Sikh riots that took place in Delhi in 1984.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (Government of India) gave the CBI instructions to look into the case against the then Member of Parliament and others after considering the Commission’s report.
Evidence discovered during the CBI investigation shows that on November 1, 1984, the accused allegedly instigated, incited and provoked the mob that had gathered at Gurudwara Pul Bangash in Azad Market, Delhi. As a result, the mob set Gurudwara Pul Bangash on fire and killed three Sikhs while also burning and looting stores.
The court on July 19 ruled that because the CBI had included Section 188 (Violation of Order Issued by Public Servant), it was necessary to file the complaint by that public servant under Section 195 CrPC.
The chargesheet must be taken into consideration, the court had stated.
“Either you (CBI) bring the complaint or drop the section 188 IPC from the charge sheet,” the court had said.
The CBI’s attorney had been tasked by the court with discussing the matter with the department and reporting it accordingly.
The court said that the judge had read the supplementary charge sheet and three new sections of the IPC—153 A, 148 and 188 were added in the supplementary charge sheet.
The supplementary charge sheet against Jagdish Tytler was reserved for order on Cognizance by the court on July 7.
