The CBI on Tuesday recorded anti-Sikh riots accused Congress leader Jagdish Tytler’s voice sample as fresh evidence has emerged in the case, a spokesperson of the agency said. Tytler’s voice sample was recorded at the CFSL Lab.
He was asked to appear before the agency in connection with a case of a fire that took place at Delhi’s Pull Bangash Gurudwara during the 1984 riots.
CNN-News18 has learnt that CBI wanted to match Tytler’s voice samples with the voice of a person who allegedly confessed to rioting in a sting video released by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in 2018. Tytler had then denied that he was the person in the video.
Manjit Singh GK, the Sikh leader who had released the sting video, has also been asked by the probe agency to join the investigation. GK while releasing the video in 2018 had claimed that Ravinder Kumar, a Delhi-based businessman, had recorded Tytler’s “confession’ about his role in the Pul Bangash gurdwara fire and that he was willing to testify in court.
CBI in its letter to GK said, “The evidentiary value of the voice sample will be tested in due course. Legal opinion will be taken. But at this stage, we do want to look at all the new evidence that is coming up,” a CBI official said.
The probe team also plans to contact the Delhi police to check if there are any police control room recordings from 1984 that can shed fresh light on this case.
Back in 2019, a report was filed by the CBI before a single judge bench of the Karkardooma court, presided by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Amit Arora, with regard to the lie detector test conducted on Abhishek Verma, an eyewitness in the case, an ANI report had said.
Verma, a witness in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots case, had filed a writ complaint with Delhi Police in 2017, requesting them to enhance his police protection following a death threat e-mail, the report further states.
The Pul Bangash Gurudwara fire case pertains to the killing of three Sikhs – Badal Singh, Thakur Singh and, Gurcharan Singh – at Gurudwara Pulbangash in North Delhi on November 1, 1984, a day after then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated.
Earlier in February 2019, noting the sensitive nature of the matter, the court had directed the CBI to expedite investigations into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Tytler was given clean chit for his alleged role.
The case against Tytler was one of the three cases the Nanavati Commission had ordered to be reopened by the CBI in 2005. Tytler is accused of leading a mob in the 1984 Pul Bangash case in which three Sikhs were killed, the ANI report further stated.
During the infamous 1984 Sikh riots, 2,800 Sikhs were killed across India, including 2,100 in Delhi, data suggests.
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