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New Delhi, Dec 4 (PTI) CBI was today directed to conduct further probe in a1984-anti Sikh riots case against Jagdish Tytler with a Delhi court saying thatstatement of arms dealer Abhishek Verma discloses an active role played bythe Congress leader in extending "helping hand" to a witness against him.

The court noted that statement given by Verma to CBI in which he has claimedthat Tytler had sent the son of Surinder Singh Granthi, a key witness againsthim, to Canada cannot be a "sheer coincidence" and the agency should probeif the facts disclosed by Verma were true.

"The statement made by witness Abhishek Verma discloses an active roleplayed by Jagdish Tytler in sending one Narinder Singh to Canada. Narinder isnone other than the son of Surinder Singh Granthi, a key witness in the presentcase against Jagdish Tytler.

"It cannot be a sheer coincidence that Tytler extended a helping hand toNarinder Singh in 2004-05," Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SPS Lalersaid, adding that a thorough probe was required.

"If the facts disclosed by Abhishek Verma are true, then an inference may bedrawn by the court against Jagdish Tytler in the present case. Thus, itbecomes necessary to find out whether the facts disclosed by him are true ornot," the court said in its eight-page order.

In its order, the court elaborated on 11-points, including whether Verma hadobtained a contract of Rs 50 lakh in 1988 from Air India when Tytler was theCivil Aviation Minister, which were required to be further probed by CBI.

It also asked the agency to conduct a lie-detection test on Verma, if required.

However, the judge clarified that the agency is "free to investigate the matter bywhatever mode and procedure suitable in the facts of the case and theaforesaid points are only indicative of the kind of probe that can be undertakenby CBI to find out the truth."

The court also said that as CBI has filed closure reports in the case severaltimes, so it would now monitor the probe every two months so that no aspectsof the matter is left uninvestigated.

It has fixed the matter for further proceedings on February 2.

The case pertains to riots at Gurudwara Pulbangash in north Delhi where threepeople were killed on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of thethen Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

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Further probe ‘84 riots case against Tytler, court to CBI — By FPJ Bureau | Dec 05, 2015 12:25 am

New Delhi : A court here on Friday refused to accept the closure report and directed the CBI to conduct further investigation into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to conduct further investigations and refused to accept the closure report that gives Tytler a clean chit.

The court also directed CBI to verify the facts given by businessman and arms dealer Abhishek Verma, who was cited as a witness in the closure report.

Abhishek Verma in his statement told the CBI that Tytler had told him in 2008 that he had met the then prime minister after which he got a clean chit for his alleged role in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Verma also stated that Tytler had tried to influence one of the witnesses by giving him a hefty sum of money and promising to settle his son abroad. The court also directed CBI to record the statements of other witnesses in the case.

On the last hearing, the CBI also submitted that it was prepared to investigate the matter further on the court’s permission.

The CBI’s statement came while replying to an application filed by the Shiromani Akali Dal in which the party told the court that it would provide the addresses of three material witnesses.

The CBI had earlier informed the court that these witnesses were not traceable.

Advocate H.S. Phoolka, appearing for victim/complainant Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed during the riots, said that in view of the seriousness of the offence, the court should not accept the closure report.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Kaur against the CBI’s closure report – its third – giving a clean chit to Tytler for his alleged role in the violence.

Phoolka said the CBI’s investigation was “faulty, tainted, dishonest and perfunctory”.

Earlier, the agency gave a clean chit to the Congress leader twice.

In April 2013, a sessions court rejected a closure report and ordered the agency to further investigate the killings.

The CBI did that, but filed another closure report on December 24, 2014, saying there was insufficient evidence to proceed against Tytler. IANS

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Rejecting the clean chit given to senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in an anti-Sikh riot case, a Dfurther investigate it.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate SPS Laler in his re-investigation order also said that the c

‘As closure report in this case has been filed several times, hence the court is of the opinion that it winvestigation is monitored by the court on bi-monthly basis so that no aspect of the case is left un-indirected to conduct further investigation in the present case,” Mr. Laler said.

Stating that the complainant in the case, Lakhwinder Kaur, had submitted the names and addresses

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court said: “Admittedly, further investigation is required in the present case to examine more eye-winvestigation is also required to find out whether the two said witnesses were actually present at the

Lakhwinder Kaur is the wife of a man who was killed by a mob along with two others at Gurdwara Phas accused Mr. Tytler of inciting the mob. The riots had broken out in the wake of the assassinatioGandhi.

The CBI had earlier sought to close the case in 2007 and 2009 but the court had rejected it and ordrejection of the CBI plea to close the case.

The court also directed the probe agency to thoroughly investigate the statement of Abhishek Vermactive role played by Jagdish Tytler in sending out Narinder Singh, son of key witness Surinder Sing

The phone number of Narinder Singh is available on court record which CBI can collect, the court s

The allegations are that businessman Abhishek Verma, son of the late Congress MP Srikant Verma,investigating agency that Mr. Tytler had paid about rupees one crore to Surinder Singh Granthi andNarinder Singh to Canada under a deal to make a statement in his favour.

Verma’s statement is based on what Mr. Tytler had told him during a meeting in August or Septemb

The CBI in its closure report had said that the evidence by Abhishek Verma indicates that Jagdish Twitness; however, it could not be verified as the witness has since expired.

The CBI had earlier sought to close

the case in 2007 and 2009

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