New Delhi: The 1984 anti-sikh riots case will come up for hearing in the Delhi High court on Wednesday. The Court is likely to give an order on Congress leader Sajjan Kumar's application seeking the quashing of charges in the Sultanpuri case in which 6 people were killed.
Sajjan Kumar has been acquitted of all charges in a case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. District and Sessions Judge JR Aryan acquitted Kumar while convicting five others - Balwan Khokkar, an ex-councillor, Mahender Yadav, an ex-MLA, Kishan Khokkar, Girdhari Lal and Captain Bhagmal - for their involvement in the case.
Kumar, a former Lok Sabha MP from Outer Delhi, still faces trial in another 1984 rioting case. In a third case, Delhi Police has filed a closure report, saying there was no evidence against Kumar to implicate him.
The case relates to anti-Sikh riots that had broken out after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984. Gandhi was shot dead by two of her bodyguards at her residence in New Delhi....
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08:47 AM, May 15, 2013
Bathinda: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday slammed the Congress for "shielding the culprits" of 1984 anti-Sikh riots and termed as "shameful" the "denial" of justice to the victim families. Sukhbir launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing the party of denying justice to people who were "burnt alive on streets of Delhi" by "shielding Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler." He said a delegation led by...
03:12 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Friday refrained from commenting on the controversy surrounding party leader Jagdish Tytler against whom a court has ordered reopening of a case of alleged involvement in 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Praising the CBI party spokesperson Rashid Alvi said that it "investigates any issue with honesty". "Investigation is the responsibility of CBI. It investigates any issue honestly whether it relates to LK Advani or somebody else....We respect the...
03:28 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Bangalore: Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily on Friday said the Congress would not protect anybody and the law would take its own course on senior party leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. "Our heart goes out to the victims. We are not here to protect anybody. The law will take its own course," Moily said, while noting that the Congress leadership had owned up 'moral responsibility' as...
02:40 PM, Apr 12, 2013
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11:32 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler broke his silence, a day after a Delhi court rejected the CBI clean chit to him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Tytler said he will not take any party post till he's cleared of all charges. ...
09:32 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Even as a Delhi court ordered reopening of case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, he claimed he was not present at the scene of the riots and that the witness was pressured into giving a statement against him. Speaking exclusively to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Tytler said, "I happened to be with Indira Gandhi's body, how come I would...
07:19 PM, Apr 11, 2013
HS Phoolka, the lawyer for the anti-Sikh riots victims, has strongly hit back at Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, after the former minister accused him of coaching witnesses against him. ...
04:26 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Even as a Delhi court ordered reopening of case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler for his alleged involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, he claimed he was not present at the scene of the riots and that the witness was pressured into giving a statement against him. Speaking exclusively to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Tytler said, "I happened to be with Indira Gandhi's body, how come I would...
02:48 PM, Apr 11, 2013
New Delhi: Even as a Delhi court, rejecting the closure report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), on Wednesday ordered the investigative agency to re-investigate the role of the three-time Congress MP Jagdish Tytler in the killings of Sikhs near a gurudwara on November 1, 1984, politicians across party lines insist that a fair probe was possible only when the investigators were given a freehand. Speaking to IBN18...
12:12 PM, Apr 11, 2013
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 would seek a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe. Sikhs for Justice (SFJ), a New York based human rights advocacy group, announced on Wednesday that it will file a writ petition before Delhi High Court asking it to set up...
11:43 AM, Apr 11, 2013
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11:58 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: In yet another setback for Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, a Delhi court ordered the CBI to re-investigate the role of the three-time MP in the killings of Sikhs near a gurudwara on November 1, 1984, rejecting the closure report filed by the investigative agency. Lawyer HS Phoolka said, "On November 6, 1984 Jagdish Tytler went to the Police Commissioner's office and asked him to release his men. This...
10:30 PM, Apr 10, 2013
A Delhi court on Wednesday ordered further investigation against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. ...
10:01 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: Another key eyewitness, apart from Jasbir Singh, in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots tracked down by CNN-IBN in December 2007 was Surinder Singh, who in that year was a granthi at the Gurudwara Pulbangash. On hidden camera, Surinder Singh gave a graphic description of how a mob led by Tytler killed three Sikhs on the street in front of the gurudwara. Just months after CNN-IBN aired Surinder's interview, he...
09:59 PM, Apr 10, 2013
In a major setback for Congress leader and former union minister Jagdish Tytler, a Delhi court on Wednesday ordered that his role in a case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots be re-investigated. ...
09:26 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: For years agencies investigating the role of Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case said they had no eye-witnesses. That changed in December 2007, when CNN-IBN located two key eye-witnesses. One of the witnesses Jasbir Singh said, "On November 3 I saw Jagdish Tytler inciting the mob outside the hospital at Kingsway Camp. He was saying I have promised that the maximum numbers of Sikhs...
08:53 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Congress leader Jagdish Tytler's said he doesn't fear a re-investigation in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. ...
06:53 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: The CBI, whose clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riot case was rejected by a court in New Delhi, said on Wednesday it will study the verdict before deciding the course of action. CBI spokesperson Dharini Mishra said the agency will study the orders of the court and decide on future course of action. Agency sources, meanwhile, maintained that they had sent a...
06:31 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: One of the eyewitnesses in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, Jasbeer Singh has alleged a major cover up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Singh said that he is ready to testify. "I am ready to come to India and give statement before the court," Singh told CNN-IBN. Singh, who lives in California (USA), added that the CBI had made all efforts to save the accused in...
05:57 PM, Apr 10, 2013
