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Court issues notice on plea against
letting Tytler off the hook
WSN Network
NEW DELHI: An
Indian special court has now questioned the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI) for giving a clean chit to Sikh killer and
former union minister and Congress MP Jagdish Tytler in the 1984
anti-Sikh massacres in which nearly 3,000 Sikhs were killed. The CBI
was directed to continue the probe and file its reply by November
29.
As reported by
the WSN in its last edition, the CBI had filed a closure report
citing lack of witnesses against Tytler because either the witnesses
were dead or did not want to testify. The SGPC then filed an appeal
in the court questioning the CBI’s decision The court then told the
CBI that it cannot give a clean chit without its having heard
accounts of the victims. But the Indian establishment did not utter
a word as to how cases against mass murderers can be close without
even hearing out the victims.
Sections of
the Indian media said even now the CBI might again file a closure
report due to lack of evidence. Last year, the central government
had directed the CBI to reopen cases against Congress leaders Tytler,
Sajjan Kumar and Dharam Das Shastri who were named by the Nanavati
Commission for their role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. So far the
government's response has been to name a prominent road in Delhi
after Dharam Das Shastri.
10 October, 2007
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