A Delhi court on Monday appointed former Director of Prosecution of the Delhi government, B. S. Joon, as commissioner to oversee the polygraph test on alleged arms dealer Abhishek Verma in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
Verma is a prosecution witness in the case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Arora made the appointment following an application by Verma accusing a forensic science laboratory in Rohini of defending Mr. Tytler during his lie-detector test in connection with the case.
He had also sought setting up of a committee to oversee the test. Verma alleged that officials of the forensic lab, where he is undergoing the polygraph test, was holding a ‘mini-trial’ and acting in an ‘unfair and biased manner’.
‘Acting in biased manner’
“The senior scientific officer was acting in a very biased manner and trying to defend the accused person in the present case,” Verma had alleged in his application.
Lakhwinder Kaur, the wife of a man who was killed along with two others by a mob at Gurdwara Pul Bangas in north Delhi, is the complainant in the case. She has accused Mr. Tytler of inciting the mob that allegedly attacked the gurdwara.
Riots had broken out in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Verma had said, in a statement recorded by the CBI, that Mr. Tytler paid about ₹1 crore to Surinder Singh Granthi, a prosecution witness in the case, and arranged for a visa for $50,000 to send his son Narinder Singh, another witness in the case, to Canada in return for a statement in his favour.
