CBI files closure report on anti-sikh riot case, clean chit to Tytler
The closure report was filed in December 2014 but the court has not yet taken cognisance of the matter, reports said on Wednesday.
Protesting against the clean chit to Tytler, senior lawyer and petitioner HS Phoolka told CNN-IBN, "it's very unfortunate that CBI has silently filed a closure report and given clean chit to Jagdish Tytler on December 24, 2014. We will file our protest application in the concerned court and oppose the clean chit to Tytler."
Tytler was among the three prominent leaders named in the reports on 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which nearly 3000 Sikhs were killed.
The riots took place following the assassination of former prime minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday restrained a trial court from taking any decision in the defamation case against Tytler on a complaint filed by a senior advocate representing the victims in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases. The trial court had framed charges against Tytler in the case on March 2, 2015 saying he had prime facie defamed Phoolka, the complainant in the matter, by allegedly making imputations to harm his reputation.
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