1984 riots victims question CBI report on Tytler

Beginning arguments against the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) closure report on Jagdish Tytlers involvement in the 1984 Sikh riots,the victims lawyer on Tuesday said the investigating agency had been biased and had interrogated witnesses in a manner that suggested they were espousing Tytlers case.

Beginning arguments against the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) closure report on Jagdish Tytlers involvement in the 1984 Sikh riots,the victims lawyer on Tuesday said the investigating agency had been biased and had interrogated witnesses in a manner that suggested they were espousing Tytlers case.

Lakhwinder Kaur,widow of Badal Singh who was killed during the riots,had filed a protest petition after the CBI gave a clean chit to Tytler last year citing lack of evidence. The closure report had also claimed the witnesses had made false statements to implicate the Congress leader in a case related to the killing of three persons on November 1,1984,near Gurdwara Pulbangash in North Delhi.

Arguing on behalf of Kaur,counsel Rebecca John said the CBI never summoned Tytler or suggested a narco or a lie-detector test on him while conducting its investigations. John argued that by basing its report on their interviews with victims who said they had not seen Tytler,the CBI was acting biased as the victims could have been trying to flee the carnage and could have missed the leader.

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The witnesses statements affidavits of witness Surinder Singh (now dead) and the statement of another witness Jasbir Singh need to be taken into account too,she told the court.

The court has fixed March 29 for another round of arguments from the victims side before the CBI begins its arguments in defence of its report.

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