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
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld the life sentence awarded to four persons for burning two men to death during 1984 anti-Sikh riots. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and MY Eqbal turned down the plea of the convicts that they could not be held guilty of murder as the body was not recovered by the Delhi Police and there was delay in lodging FIR in the case. "It...
04:39 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: 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. The Karkardooma court which ordered the re-investigation set aside the order of a trial court which had accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) closure report of 2009 that had given a clean chit to...
04:29 PM, Apr 10, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court will on Wednesday deliver its order on the plea of the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims seeking further investigation against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler. The case relates to the killing of three persons near a gurudwara in Pul Bangash area on November 1, 1984. The CBI had filed a closure report against Jagdish Tytler in April 2009. The report was later accepted by the Magistrate who...
08:59 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Cairo: Clashes between Egyptian Muslims and Christians erupted early Saturday in a town near Cairo, leaving at least five people dead, security officials said. Investigators said they were waiting for autopsy reports to confirm how the men - four Christians and a Muslim - were killed in the small town of Khosoos, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the capital. President Mohammed Morsi's office released a statement condemning the...
07:20 AM, Apr 07, 2013
New Delhi: Launching another sharp attack on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, who recently made a pitch for the Prime Minister's post, the Congress has virtually called him 'Yamraj' (Lord of Death in Hindu mythology). "Had he intended to indicate Narendra Modi, he would not have referred to somebody riding a horse but somebody riding a buffalo (Yamraj's vehicle as depicted in Hindu mythology). Rahulji has talked about somebody coming...
08:17 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Ahmedabad: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday moved the Gujarat High Court against a special court's judgement in a 2002 riot case in which 11 members of a family, nine of them women and children, were killed. The judgement in the Deepda Darwaza riot case was delivered on July 30, 2012. Designated Judge S C Srivastava had awarded life imprisonment to 21 people, a year in jail to a...
01:35 AM, Apr 06, 2013
