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Tytler brings fig leaf as defence

Pushed into a corner, Jagdish Tytler displayed his skills at telling lies, remarkably crammed into a few minutes on camera, and not a hidden one. The top most lie was that India’s Doordarshan TV has CDs that were shot with fixed cameras which show his presence continuously from 7 am till 3 pm on November 1, 1984 by the side of Indira Gandhi’s body at Teen Murti bhawan in New Delhi. So he could not be where Surinder Singh says he was. In a chat with CNN-IBN’s Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Tytler had no answer why he did not produce the CDs before Nanawati Commission and made a mess for himself at some sharp questioning by CNN-IBN anchor Suhasini Haidar.

At one stage he promised to give CNN-IBN the seven CDs, then said he has only one copy, then said he will give these to the CBI, then said he will give these to the CBI if the court asked him to, and then said the Doordarshan must have these in its records. Not one Congress leader has so far vouched for his presence all through the time period, but Tytler kept questioning if Surinder Singh can produce another witness.

It was then that Suhasini Haidar cut him short with a terse comment: “It's interesting you should say that. Surinder's testimony comes in the same week as Jasbir Singh's.”

Jagdish Tytler: That's not his testimony. Jasbir's is a different case.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Are you suggesting, Mr Tytler, that it's all a conspiracy?

Jagdish Tytler: It's all a conspiracy.

Rajdeep Sardesai: By a section of Congress leadership?

Jagdish Tytler: I would not say that.

Rajdeep Sardesai: By your political rivals?

Jagdish Tytler: Anyone.

Rajdeep Sardesai: Is it people who wouldn't want you to come back to power?

Jagdish Tytler: That's for police to find out. CBI must find out.

CBI clearly suits Tytler very well. After all, this is the agency that was going over board while giving Tytler a clean chit. Till Jasbir Singh spoke up. Tytler even said that Surinder Singh “should also prove his case by bringing in more people.” What he did not say was that he will ask senior Congress leaders to vouch for him. Clearly, Suhasini Haidar spoke for many when she said, “Surinder Singh and Jasbir Singh are not the only people what o accuse you. The CDs you speak of were not produced before CBI and they may not be there at all now.” Tytler did not counter this, but merely added: “After 21 years, this fellow comes and says all this. I don't understand this. There's someone behind this.”Activist lawyer H.S. Phoolka countered by asking why Tytler did not ask Nanawati to summon the CDs. Tytler had no answer to this. Just one more thing: The CD had not been invented in 1984.

26 December, 2007
 

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