A Delhi trial court on Friday ordered the CBI to frame charges against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 40-year-old anti-Sikh riots case that started a day after then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31, 1984.
The court said there were sufficient grounds to proceed against the accused in the case involving the killing of three Sikhs and directed the CBI to frame the charges.
The agency had last year filed a chargesheet against Tytler alleging that he “incited, instigated and provoked the mob assembled” at Gurudwara Pul Bangash in Delhi on November 1, 1984, that resulted in the killing of the three Sikhs.
The agency had slapped charges of rioting and murder under the Indian Penal Code against Tytler.
The CBI had registered the case on November 22, 2005, in connection with the deaths of Sardar Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Gurcharan Singh when a gurudwara was set on fire by a mob on
November 1, 1984.
The Centre had set up the Justice Nanavati Commission in 2000 to investigate the “killing of the innocent Sikhs” during the riots. Tytler, who is on bail, had dismissed the allegations saying there was no evidence against him.
