CBI Files Chargesheet Against Congress's Jagdish Tytler In 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots Case

CBI on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Congress's Jagdish Tytler in connection with the Pul Bangash Gurudwara fire case, in 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

CBI on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Congress's Jagdish Tytler in connection with the Pul Bangash Gurudwara fire case, in 1984 anti-Sikh riots. ( Image Source :Twitter/ANI )

CBI on Saturday filed a chargesheet against Congress's Jagdish Tytler in connection with the Pul Bangash Gurudwara fire case, in 1984 anti-Sikh riots, as reported by the news agency ANI.

CBI files chargesheet against Congress's Jagdish Tytler in connection with Pul Bangash Gurudwara fire case, in 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

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In April, Jagdish Tytler appeared before the CBI in the national capital and gave samples of his voice, in connection with the Pul Bangash Gurdwara case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, as reported by ANI citing sources. The Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) will examine the voice samples. "I am ready to get hanged...if there is a single evidence against me," Tytler said while leaving the laboratory.

"What have I done? If there's evidence against me, then I'm prepared to hang myself...It wasn't related to 1984 riots case for which they wanted my voice (sample), but another case," Tytler said, as quoted by ANI. However, CBI officials said, "We have got evidence in an ongoing case, so he has been asked to give his voice sample," as quoted by ANI.

Tytler is accused of leading a mob in the 1984 Pul Bangash case in which three Sikhs were killed. The CBI had given a clean chit to the Congress leader in the case but re-opened the investigation following a December 4, 2015 order. Over the past few years, the Congress party had distanced itself from Tytler as he faced legal trouble related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards that left thousands dead in sectarian violence.