Sikh protestors protest outside court hearing Tytler case

Over 100 protestors from various Sikh organisations on Thursday held a demonstration outside the court, which is scheduled to hear CBI plea of closing the case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

The protestors belonging to All India Sikh Students Federation, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), Khalsa Regiment were raising slogans outside the Karkardooma court complex against CBI for giving clean chit to the 65-year-old Tytler, who has been declared Congress candidate from Delhi's northeast seat for the Lok Sabha polls.

Flashing placards and demanding non-closure of cases from the court, the protestors were demanding stringent punishment for Tytler for his alleged role in instigating the riots pertaining to killing of three persons when a mob attacked Gurudwara Pulbangash on November 1, 1984.

A large number of police personnel have been deployed in and around the court premises to prevent any unfortunate incident.

The CBI had on April 2 pleaded before the court to close the case against Tytler, saying that there was no evidence against the former minister.

The case against the Congress leader relates to an incident on November one, 1984, when a mob had set afire Gurudwara Pulbangash killing three persons in the riots that had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Earlier also, the probe agency had on September 29, 2007, sought to close the case against Tytler. But the court had on December 19, 2007, asked it to file the investigation report after Jasbir Singh, a witness, surfaced and expressed his willingness to depose against the Congress leader.