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Babbar now says
CBI under pressure, so he won't depose
WSN Network
New Delhi: A Sikh
leader, Gurcharan Singh Babbar, has refused to appear before the CBI
for recording his statement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases saying
the agency was working under “pressure” and demanded replacement of
the team probing the carnage.
President of All India Sikh Conference (Babbar), Babbar, in a letter
to the CBI director Vijay Shanker, said he would not be joining the
probe as the CBI team was working under pressure.
Claiming that Babbar had a “very-important statement”, supported by
documentary evidence, to make, a press release issued by the
organisation said Babbar will not join the CBI team until the CBI
director replaced the team.
Earlier, additional superintendent of police (CBI) Manoj Pangarkar
requested Babbar to join investigation today and record his
statement. The CBI had issued him a notice under Section 160 of the
CrPC and had asked him to join the probe on January 24, a date
decided as per his convenience. He was then sent a second notice for
today.
6 February 2008
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