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Tytler
status report on Wednesday
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NEW DELHI:
India's
top sleuthing bureau, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI),
that at one stage seemed in a hurry to let Sikh massacre accused
Jagdish Tytler off the hook, is on Wednesday expected to file its
status report on its reinvestigation into the 1984 genocide carried
out by largely Congressmen led mobs, and in particular by former
Indian minister Jagdish Tytler. A city court hearing the case on
March 12 pulled up the investigating agency for failing to file a
status report and asked it to do so in a week.
Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjiv Jain while hearing the case said, "I
have not asked you to file a charge sheet but a status report in the
case. It was your duty to file the report."
However on its
part, CBI counsel Sanjay Kumar informed the court that since the
re-investigation was ordered on December 18 it has questioned four
witnesses in the case.
The
investigating agency has also contacted a US-based NRI Jasbir Singh,
who is a key witness and had volunteered to depose in the case after
the CBI gave a clean chit to Congress leader Tytler.
A matter related
to Singh's testimony is pending before the Delhi High Court. Singh
had earlier expressed his inability to come to the country for
recording his testimony and had expressed his willingness to record
his testimony through video-conferencing. For reasons known best to
the CBI, it had earlier stated that it was not aware of the
existence of Jasbir Singh and has lately been reluctant to send
sleuths to help him depose or take his testimony through video
conferencing.
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March 2008
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