Images, above and below: Tytler never appears in public, unless surrounded by goondas and mercenaries, many of them specially chosen because they are Sikh. The mass-murderer wears a dozen Hindu talismans on his wrist ... to help get court adjournments.
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29 Years Later, Indian Court Orders Yet Another Probe Into 1984 Mass Murders
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In a big jolt of reality to mass-murderer Jagdish Tytler, a court in Delhi, India has finally -- 29 years late -- last week ordered reopening of a 1984 anti-Sikhs massacre case against him, setting aside a Central Bureau of Investigation (“CBI”) closure report giving clean chit to the Congress leader.
The CBI was directed to examine eye-witnesses and people who have evidence about the pogroms.
Additional Sessions Judge (“ASJ”) Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj set aside the order of a magisterial court which accepted CBI's closure report giving a clean chit to Tytler.
"The order of the trial court accepting the closure report is set aside. CBI is directed to conduct the investigation and examine the claimants/eye witnesses in the case," the judge directed.
The ASJ's order came on a plea by the families of the pogrom victims against the CBI giving a clean chit to Tytler and filing a closure report.
During lengthy arguments over the past few months in support of the plea, senior advocate H S Phoolka, appearing for petitioner Lakhwinder Kaur, had submitted that there was material which the agency has ignored and evidence was also there before the trial court against Tytler.
"CBI had time to examine Tytler's driver, who had deposed in his favour, but they had no time to record the statement of the witnesses who had seen Tytler at the spot of incident. Are they (CBI) investigating on the command of Tytler?," Mr Phoolka had said.
The CBI had, however, sought dismissal of the plea filed by the victim, saying their probe suggested that Tytler may not have been present on November 1, 1984 at Gurdwara Pul Bangash in North Delhi where several people were murdered by a mob brought to the site by Tytler, and directed by him.
The Sikh community is taking these developments cautiously, knowing how little has been done in the past 29 years and all the hurdles placed on their quest for justice by the government and its representatives.
Also, there is the issue of whether similar probes will be resumed and conducted against the others accused in the 1984 mass murders who have to date used their political and economic clout to avoid accountability. The long list of names includes Kamal Nath (who is now a cabinet minister in India’s central government), actor Amitabh Bachchan and India’s former President, Pratibha Patil.
April 11, 2013
Conversation about this article
1: Kanwarjeet Singh (USA), April 11, 2013, 7:27 AM.
Come election time - time for some more drama. The 'sins of their fathers' are catching up with the people of India - just look at the crime rate in India these days, especially its capital city, New Delhi -- rapes and murders galore. These are the same perpetrators of 1984 who were sheltered by the common man, either directly or implicitly, by not allowing justice for Sikhs.
2: Sunny Grewal (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada), April 11, 2013, 12:47 PM.
I wonder how long it will take to declare him innocent this time.
3: Inderjeet (Thane, Maharashtra, India), April 11, 2013, 2:58 PM.
Nothing is going to happen to this goon as the CBI is the real culprit and well known as the "Congress" Bureau of Investigation. The clean chit was given to this scoundrel without any investigation whatsoever, whereas the commissions of enquiry had clearly evidenced that Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and H K L Bhagat were behind the mobs. It was the CBI that told Jasbir Singh, the prime witness, that they will not guarantee his safety if he visits India to testify.
4: Gurteg Singh (New York, USA), April 11, 2013, 7:37 PM.
Sikhs are again trapped in the stunts that the Indian government and its media are playing. Suddenly after this minor judicial reprimand, even Giani Gurbachan Singh is telling us that we trust the Indian judiciary - yes, the same judiciary which has incarcerated thousands of Sikhs and hanged many innocent ones while doing every thing in its power to protect well-known mass murderers who led the genocide against Sikhs. The real issue is that the infrastructure that organized and ordered the horrible injustices against Sikhs is very much intact and in fact more powerful than before. We have to think how we can empower ourselves so that this will never happen to us again.
5: Mohan Singh (Toronto, Ontario, Canada.), April 12, 2013, 11:38 AM.
Read the tract, "Who are the Guilty?" at http://www.pucl.org/Topics/Religion-communalism/2003/who-are-guilty.htm This is only an election stunt, the facts are known to all.
6: Sunny Grewal (Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada), April 12, 2013, 9:37 PM.
The same court which has upheld the death sentence for Professor Devinder Singh Bhullar will also find Jagdish Tytler innocent. There is only one type of justice in India, and it is not available to its minorities.
7: Amarjit Singh Duggal (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), April 13, 2013, 6:05 PM.
Watch, they will let him go again, once they are done hanging Bhullar. A mind game is being played, and this community is sleeping.