Sydney: The 1984 riots victims constitute majority of the Australia’s Sikh population. When former Union Minister for Overseas Indians Affairs and one of the riots ‘accused’ Jagdish Tytler visited Sydney a few years ago, he faced a demonstration Sikhs in front of the hotel where he was being fecilitated. He clarified during his speech then that he himself was a Kapur Sikh and couldn’t have indulged into such an act against Sikhs following the assassination of Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
Now with the CBI giving a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 riot case against him, tempers are going to rise here. While no official of Punjabi Association or any other body could be contacted on Thursday evening, some fireworks are expected at the Sunday community gathering at various Gurdwaras in and around Sydney.
The CBI on Saturday submitted its final investigation report in a sealed envelope before Metropolitan Magistrate Ram Lal Meena into a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case allegedly involving Jagdish Tytler. The court will consider the report on April 2. The report was filed after the CBI had examined California based witness Jasbir Singh in the case who was earlier declared non-traceable by it. Singh had in an affidavit before Nanavati Commission which inquired into the anti-Sikh riots, stated that on November 3, 1984 he had overheard Tytler commenting on the killing of Sikhs in his constituency.
The investigating agency had earlier submitted that it has already examined ten witnesses in the case and the final report in this case will be submitted by March 28.
Shocking: “The news of Jagdish Tytler being given a clean chit is really shocking. It has shaken the faith of the common man in the judicial system in the one hand and the CBI on the other,” Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Balbir Punj told PTI.
”This entire episode has exposed the hypocrisy of Congress. While the Prime Minister has apologised for and regretted the tragic anti-Sikh incidents of 1984, the party has been rewarding the very people who are suspected to have masterminded that,” he said. The whole episode has brought to light the “insensitivity” of the establishment led by UPA, Punj said.
The case against 65-year-old Tytler, the Congress candidate from Delhi North-East seat for the Lok Sabha polls, relates to an incident on November one, 1984 when a mob had torched a Delhi Gurdwara, killing three persons
Another spokesman of the Party Prakash Javadekar told reporters on Saturday alleged that the UPA government was misusing the CBI to give clean chit to Jagdish Tytler.
“CBI is now Congress Bureau of Investigation. It is used by the UPA for its benefit. It gave a clean chit to Mayawati when BSP supported it, then ditto for Mulayam Singh and now it is using the agency to give a clean chit to its candidate Tytler, he said.
“The political use of CBI on the evening of the polls is a political conspiracy against the people of this country,” Javadekar said.
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