A Delhi court on Wednesday gave the CBI two months to wrap up investigation of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
Earlier, the investigating agency filed a status report on the progress of the probe in the case before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shivali Sharma in a sealed cover and sought four months more to complete it, submitting that it had written to the Interpol seeking information about the case from the Canadian High Commission in India. But the court directed the CBI to directly write to the Canadian High Commission for the information required.
Arguing on behalf of the complainant in the case, Senior Advocate H.S. Phoolka argued that out of the 11 points, five points could be conducted in India and on the remaining 6 points information is available with the Canadian High Commission in Delhi.
Mr. Phoolka alleged that in the past the CBI had collected material only to support the accused Mr. Tytler and this time round also it might do the same thing. The court later fixed July 11 as the date for further hearing in the case.
Rejecting third clean chit given by the CBI to Mr. Tytler in the case, the court had last December directed the investigating agency to further investigate the case.
“As closure report in this case has been filed several times, the court is of the opinion that it would be in the interest of justice if the investigation is monitored by the court on a bi-monthly basis so that no aspect of the case is left un-investigated,” the court had then said.
Lakhwinder Kaur is the complainant in the case. She is the widow of a man who was killed along with two others by a mob at Gurdwara Pul Bangas in North Delhi in the riots. She has accused Mr. Tytler of inciting the mob which had allegedly attacked the Gurdwara. The riots had broken out in the wake of the assassination of erstwhile Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
The CBI had earlier sought to close the case in 2007 and 2009 but the court had rejected it and ordered further investigation.
The court directed the CBI to write directly to the Canadian High Commission for the information required
