Delhi court pulls up CBI for shoddy probe in 1984 riots case

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 28

A Delhi court on Wednesday pulled up CBI for conducting a shoddy probe into allegations against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Karkardooma, directed CBI’s SP to be present in the court at the next date of hearing on October 25.

The magistrate passed the order after perusing the status report submitted by the CBI.

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Appearing for complainant Lakhwinder Kaur, senior advocate HS Phoolka brought to the notice of the court the order dated 4.12.2015 where the court rejected the third clean chit given to Tytler and gave CBI the lines on which the investigation should be conducted.

The court today asked CBI about the investigation regarding witness Narinder Singh whose contact details were shared by the counsel for complainant.

The CBI informed the court that they tried contacting Narinder Singh on the phone number shared by the complainant’s counsel, but there was no response.

Phoolka further brought to the notice of the court that the contact details shared by them were working and also Narinder Singh’s relatives were living in Delhi and Punjab they could have made efforts to trace them.

The court further asked CBI about the information from the Canadian government. The probe agency informed the court that they approached the Canadian government to obtain that information and showed that communication letter to the court.

The court pointed out that the letter was undated and this showed that the effective steps were not being taken. The CBI’s investigating officer said the letter was written on September 8, 2016.

Phoolka informed the court that during his visit to Canada, he had gone to the office of the Canadian Prime Minister to seek their assistance in providing the information. He was assured that the Canadian government was serious about the punishment to the guilty of the 1984 carnage and would fully cooperate with CBI.