New Delhi: A city court on Friday (September 13) framed charges of murder and other offences against Congress leader and former Union minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984-anti Sikh riots case.
Tytler pleaded not guilty to the offences
Special Judge Rakesh Siyal directed Tytler to face trial after the Congress leader pleaded not guilty to the offences.
There was sufficient evidence against Tytler to put him on trial on various charges, court earlier said
The court had earlier ordered framing of charges, including murder and rioting, against Tytler in connection with killing of three people in Pul Bangash area of the national capital during 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The court had said that there was sufficient evidence against Tytler to put him on trial on various charges and had ordered Tytler to be physically present before it on September 13 for formal framing of charges.
CBI filed chargesheet in the case last year
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed the chargesheet in the case before a court in the national capital last year and had urged the court to frame charges against Tytler, claiming that the eyewitnesses saw him incite a mob during the riots leading to the killing of three persons in the Pul Bangash area.
“There is sufficient evidence to frame charges against Jagdish Tytler. There are eyewitnesses who saw him incite the mob during the 1984 riots,” the central agency had earlier told the court while concluding its arguments on framing of charges against Tytler.
The CBI has alleged in the charge sheet that the Congress leader incited the mob, which led to the burning of three Sikhs in the Pul Bangash area in the old Delhi area of the national capital on November 1, 1984, a day after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi.
Tytler has denied CBI charges
Tytler has denied the CBI charges and has submitted that he was not present in the Pul Bangash area on November 1, 1984 and he was at the Teen Murty Bhavan on that day looking after various arrangements there following the death of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984.