April 27, 2010 8:47 PM

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CBI’s closure report is accepted, court gives clean chit to Tytler

A Delhi court today let off the Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case after accepting CBI's closure report giving clean chit to him. <br/><br/>Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit said, there is no sufficient material to send Tytler to trial. <br/><br/>The Court pointed out that the statement of California-based witness Jasbir Singh had no relevance and that the statements of another witness Surinder Singh were self- contradictory.<br/><br/>Accepting the CBI's closure report giving a clean chit to the former Union Minister, the court said that there was no ground to order further investigation in the case.<br/><br/>The alleged role of Tytler in the case relating to the killing of three persons, including one Badal Singh in 1984, near Gurudwara Pulbangash in north Delhi was re-investigated by the CBI after a court had in December 2007 refused to accept a closure report filed by the agency.

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