Sikhs protest against clean chit to Tytler; court to hear closure report

New Delhi, March 26

Scores of Sikhs and supporters of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee on Thursday staged a protest outside CBI headquarters against its move to file a closure report giving clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 riots case.

The protesters, who gathered outside the CBI headquarters around 4 pm, raised slogans against the premier investigating agency and Congress party accusing them of shielding Tytler.

Meanwhile, a Delhi court is likely to hear tomorrow CBI’s closure report in a case against senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler had issued notice to complainant and victim, Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed during the riots, to respond to the closure report tomorrow.

Police used water cannon to disperse the protesters who tried to break the barricades erected by them. Despite this, some protesters managed to reach the main gate of CGO complex.

A number of protesters including DSGMC president, general secretary Manjinder Singh Sirsa and former MLAs Harmeet Singh Kalka and Jatinder Singh Shanty were taken to the Lodhi police station from where they were released later.

Speaking on the occasion, president of DSGMC Manjit Singh GK said that the clean chit to Tytler was "atrocious" and given in most arbitrary manner. He alleged that CBI at the behest of the Congress party which was heading the government of India for ten years till 2014 never conducted thorough investigations in the case.

"It is really painful that even 30 years after the genocide justice to Sikhs is still a distant dream," said DSGMC president.

He demanded from the court to deliver justice to Sikhs by rejecting the closure report and asking the CBI to make Tytler face trial. — PTI