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The Central Bureau of Investigation filed a chargesheet against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Saturday in connection with three murders carried out by a mob in Delhi’s Pul Bangash area during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
“We have filed a chargesheet against the then member of Parliament in the Rouse Avenue district court in a case related to anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of the then prime minister of India on October 31, 1984,” a CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
“The CBI had registered the case on November 22, 2005, on an incident wherein Gurdwara Pul Bangash at Azad Market, Bara Hindu Rao, Delhi, was set on fire by a mob and three persons namely Sardar Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Gurcharan Singh were burnt to death on November 1, 1984, near Gurdwara Pul Bangash,” the spokesperson said.
The spokesperson further said that during the CBI investigation, it was found that on November 1, 1984, Tytler instigated and provoked the mob that burned the gurdwara, killed the three Sikh men and looted shops in the area.
“The Justice Nanavati Commission of Inquiry was set up in 2000 by the Government of India to inquire into the incidents of anti-Sikh riots of 1984 in Delhi. After the consideration of the commission’s report, the Ministry of Home Affairs issued directions to the CBI to investigate the case against the then member of Parliament and others,” the spokesperson added.
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