Alleged arms dealer Abhishek Verma on Friday moved a city court accusing a forensic laboratory of defending Congress leader Jagdish Tytler during his lie detector test in connection with a 1984 anti- Sikh riots case.
‘Mini trial’
Verma is a prosecution witness in the case, while Tytler is the accused. Verma, in his application, alleged that officials of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) at Rohini in the Capital, where he is undergoing the test, was holding a ‘mini-trial’, and acting in an ‘unfair and biased manner’.
“The Senior Scientific Officer was acting in a very biased manner and trying to defend the accused person of the present case,” Verma alleged in his application.
“Two officers, in separate rounds of questioning and after asking all the lawyers to leave the room on October 24 [Tuesday], put personal questions [to him] such as ‘why do people like you marry twice?’ and ‘why are you after Tytler?’... I am unable to understand,” he alleged in his application.
“The FSL Rohini is not conducting the procedure for lie detection test in a fair and impartial manner, rather the conduct and actions of FSL Rohini were extremely questionable,” he alleged.
Lakhwinder Kaur, the complainant in the case, is the wife of a man who was killed along with two others by a mob at Gurdwara Pul Bangas in north Delhi. 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.
