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Yet another
witness ready to expose Tytler
 CHANDIGARH:
Giani
Surinder Singh, whose pictures taken by a hidden camera by a private
TV channel last month, were shown by the Indian media recounting his
horrible ordeal during the 1984 Sikh carnage, has declared that he
would depose before the CBI against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
Singh also sought police protection, a permanent shift to Punjab and
rehabilitation before he appears before the CBI.
Talking to the
media, Giani Surinder Singh, who often turned tearful talking about
the threat to his family members’ lives, particularly his
Canada-based son, also said that he had decided to depose against
Tytler only after he got assurance of help from the Akal Takht and a
public assurance by SGPC president Avtar Singh Makkar.
 ‘’Now, if I die,
Jagdish Tytler should be held responsible for my death,’’ he stated
in an affidavit. Giani Surinder Singh, who is now serving as granthi
in a gurdwara in Majnu ka Tila in
Delhi,
was serving at Gurdwara Pulbangash when the anti-Sikh riots were
started on
November 1,
1984.
Legal experts
termed his statement as ‘’much more important than even that of
Jasbir Singh.’’ Jasbir is another witness, who is now in the USA and
who has refused to come back to
India
to appear in court on the ground that he faces a threat to his life
at the hands of Tytler.
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Shameless
Tytler says it’s a lie
Showing no signs of shame or remorse, Jagdish Tytler told the
media, “I don’t know what the intentions of Giani Surinder Singh
are behind this lie. I have given an official tape from
Doordarshan to the CBI, showing that I was at least 30 kms away
from the spot where the incident happened. Can Singh produce
another witness who can say that I was there?” |
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While Jasbir was
not an eye-witness to the incident in which Tytler led and incited a
mob against Sikhs, Giani Surinder Singh was an eye-witness. Jasbir
heard Tytler addressing a meeting of supporters a few days after the
violence where the latter was allegedly getting angry with his men
for not having killed enough Sikhs as compared to other localities.
Giani Surinder Singh actually saw Tytler leading the mob and
ordering his men to kill more and more Sikhs. According to his
statement before the Nanavati Commission in 2002, Singh saw Tytler
leading a mob outside Gurdwara Pulbangash and allegedly told the
looting marauders to ‘’first kill the Sikhs who have killed our
mother. You can carry on looting later,’’ said Singh, recalling
Tytler’s words in his statement before the commission.
Claiming that he
was still being threatened by Tytler, Singh said he got a call from
the Congress leader about a fortnight back when Tytler reportedly
told him that he had lost his ministerial berth because of
Surinder’s statement. ‘’I was threatened that my entire family would
be wiped out and I would be killed in an accident, if I continue to
speak against him,’’ he told mediapersons.
‘’My son’s life
is in danger,’’ he said, tears streaming down his eyes. Admitting
that he had gone back on his statement made before Nanavati
Commission, he said, ‘’I also told the commission that I am
disclosing the truth now, only because there is no Congress
government at the Centre.”
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February 2008
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