Anti-Sikh riots: Court to hear closure report against Tytler

A Delhi court is likely to hear tomorrow CBI's closure report in a case against senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler had issued notice to complainant and victim, Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed during the riots, to respond to the closure report tomorrow.
The filing of the closure report by CBI was protested by the victim's counsel, who asked why was this done "secretly".
The court had earlier said "perusal of record revealed that the cancellation report was also filed earlier as regards accused Jagdish Tytler".

This was the third time that Tytler was given a clean chit in the case by the investigating agency.
CBI said it has conducted further probe in the case, as directed by a sessions court, and filed a closure report in the matter. In April 2013, CBI was directed by a sessions court to further investigate the case as it set aside its earlier closure report.

Senior advocate H S Phoolka, representing the riot victims, has expressed displeasure over the CBI's move of filing the closure report.
"Why is it being done so secretly? Even the complainant has not been informed about it. It has been filed secretly. This shows an attempt has been made to get the closure report accepted by the court in hush-hush manner," Phoolka has said.

He has said the closure report was filed on December 24, 2014 and he had come to know about it yesterday and that too, unofficially through another lawyer, while the victim has not been informed till then.
The sessions court on April 10, 2013 had set aside CBI's closure report giving clean chit to Tytler and ordered reopening of investigation into the killing of three persons.