1984 anti-Sikh riots case: SC refuses to hear Tytler’s plea

It further noted that Tytler’s petition had raised similar grounds of challenge before the High Court,which is scheduled to hear his appeal on September 18.

With no reprieve forthcoming,Tytler’s counsel sought to withdraw the petition,which the court allowed.

Tytler had moved Supreme Court after the High Court on July 3 declined to grant interim stay on the trial court’s order for re-investigation.

The trial court had set aside the CBI’s closure report,giving Tytler a clean chit in the 29-year-old riots case. The order of further investigation had come on a plea by the kin of riot victims against CBI giving a clean chit to Tytler and filing the closure report.

Tytler,in his plea before the High Court,had said that the trial court order is contrary to the scheme of code of CrPC. The method and mode of investigation by a probe agency is the absolute prerogative of the agency and it is not for the court to direct the agency as to which witness should be examined by it,he had said.