New Delhi, June 30 A Delhi court on Friday summoned the in-charge of the record room of a trial court in connection with a case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and the CBI's FIR in the matter.During the last hearing, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Vidhi Anand Gupta of a special MP-MLAcourt, taking up the matter after receiving thecasefile, had said that she needs time to go through the charge sheet and an appropriate order will be passed.
On June 2, the Rouse AvenueCourtshad approved a supplementary charge sheet filed by theCBIagainst Tytler in theriotscaseand also transferred thecase to the special MP-MLA courtfortrial.
The ACMM summoned the in-charge of the record room, along with the casefile,from KarkardoomaCourtfor the next hearing.
Thecourt also instructed the CBI to expedite the process of obtaining the forensic report of Tytler's voice sample.
Senior advocate H.S. Phoolka, representing the riot victims, requested the court to accelerate the FSL report process. While posting the matter for hearing on July6, thecourtnoted that theCBIhad filed a closure report in 2007 and a charge sheet had been filed against another accused, leading to atrial.
Thecourtfurther observed that theFIRwas not available and the investigating officer was also absent on Friday.
The ACMM stated that she needs to examine all those documents and requested for the trialcourtrecords, as they are essential for considering thecase.
The Congress leader was named in the charge sheet following fresh evidence against him.
In April, the central probe agency had collected Tytler's voice sample in connection with the violence in the national capital's Pul Bangash area in 1984, where three people were killed. Tytler is accused of inciting a mob that murdered the victims.
On November 22, 2005, theCBIhad registered thecase on an incident wherein Gurdwara Pul Bangash at Azad Market, Delhi, was set on fire by a mob on Novermber 1, 1984 and three persons, namely Sardar Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Gurcharan Singh, were burnt to death.
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