Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Friday pleaded not guilty to the charges against him including murder and provocation with intent to cause riot in connection with the killing of three men outside Pul Bangash Gurudwara in Delhi following the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
Special Judge Rakesh Syal recorded the testimony submitted by the eyewitness and decided to begin the trial in the case. He listed the matter for hearing on October 3.
Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on August 30 directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to frame charges against the Congress leader in the 1984 anti sikh riots case under several sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 295 (injuring or defiling a place of worship), 436 (mischief by fire or explosive substance), and 302 (murder) read with 109 (abetment).
The probe agency had claimed in January 2024 before the trial court that eyewitnesses saw Jagdish Tytler incite a mob during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots which led to the killing of three people in the Pul Bangash area of the national capital. The court, however, discharged Tytler for the offence of inciting riot armed with deadly weapons on the basis of ‘lack of ground to proceed against him.’
In its charge sheet filed in May 2023 against Tytler, the CBI accused him, citing an eyewitness, of ‘inciting, instigating and provoking the mob’ which had assembled near the Pul Bangash gurdwara on November 1, 1984.
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