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'Court should tell CBI to use video
conference facility'
WSN Network
New Delhi:
Jasbir Singh, the US-based witness in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case
involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, has filed a rejoinder
through advocate H S Phoolka in the court of Justice S K Mishra,
claiming there could be a threat to his life if he visited India to
record his statement.
Jasbir Singh,
whose existence too was denied by CBI at one stage to give a clean
slip to Tytler before the media blew the figleaf by tracking down
Singh in the
US, said the CBI
should be directed to record his statement in an American court or
through video conference.
The CBI is not
making clear why it is resisting the use of alternate avenues
available rather than stressing again and again for the personal
presence of Jasbir Singh, Phoolka said. He minced no words in saying
that the CBI was making lame excuses aimed at helping the culprits.
The CBI had
issued notice for his presence, but Jasbir has asked for quashing of
this notice.
A legal clause
empowers the probe agency to seek presence of a witness.
Jasbir Singh, in
an affidavit before the Nanavati Commission, had stated that on
November
3, 1984 he had overheard Tytler rebuking his men for nominal killing
of Sikhs in his constituency.
In his
correspondence to CBI through e-mails, Singh had expressed his
willingness to help the probe agency by recording his statement in
US.
A city court on
December 18, last year had rejected CBI's report seeking closure of
the riot case against Tytler directing the agency to re-investigate
it.
27 August, 2008
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