Anti-Sikh riots case: Congress leader Jagdish Tytler summoned by Delhi court on August 5

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has summoned Congress leader Jagdish Tytler to appear on August 5 in a case pertaining to the anti-Sikh riots. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand passed the order after taking cognisance of the CBI chargesheet in the case.


The CBI had on May 20 filed a chargesheet against Tytler. Three people were killed and a gurdwara was torched in the Pul Bangash area here on November 1, 1984, a day after the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated.

In its chargesheet filed before the court, the CBI said Tytler "incited, instigated and provoked the mob assembled at Pul Bangash Gurdwara Azad Market" on November 1, 1984, that resulted in the burning down of the gurdwara and killing of three Sikhs -- Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Guru Charan Singh.

The agency has invoked charges under Sections 147 (rioting), 109 (abetment) read with 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), among others, against Tytler, the CBI said.


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