Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, who had been given a clean chit in the anti-Sikh riots case by the Central Bureau of Investigation, got additional relief on Friday when the investigating agency told a lower court here that there was no fresh FIR registered against him for trying to influence witnesses and money laundering.
The CBI’s statements came after the court’s specific queries on whether it had registered any case against Mr. Tytler under Sections 193 (punishment for false evidence) and 195A (threatening a person to give false evidence) of the IPC and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler had earlier in June sought the CBI’s response to the statement recorded by the agency of jailed businessman Abhishek Verma, who had alleged that Mr. Tytler had tried to influence a witness by giving him money and sending his son abroad.