New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday filed a charge sheet in the Rouse Avenue Court against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the Pul Bangash Gurdwara arson case during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Last month, Tytler appeared in the CBI court in the Pul Bangash Gurdwara case and gave his voice samples. Tytler is accused of leading a mob in the Pul Bangash case of 1984, in which three Sikhs were killed.
The Congress leader was earlier given a clean chit in the case by the CBI, but after a December 4, 2015 order, the probe into the Sikh riots was resumed. The case against Tytler was one of the three cases that the Justice GT Nanavati Commission ordered to be reopened by the CBI in 2005. The Nanavati Commission named Tytler as one of the masterminds of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Tytler is accused of leading a mob outside Gurudwara Pul Bangash in the North Delhi constituency, in which three Sikhs were killed.
According to official records, around 2,800 Sikhs were killed across India, including 2,100 in Delhi, during the massacre that followed the then prime minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. Indira Gandhi was murdered by her Sikh bodyguards, as a protest against which these riots broke out. Sajjan Kumar, a senior Delhi Congress leader and former MP, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in the year 2018 in the Sikh riots case. Sajjan Kumar was also accused of leading and instigating the mob.