CBI was today directed by a Delhi court to conduct further investigation in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler who had earlier got a clean chit from the agency.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate S P S Laler said that there were some aspects which were required to be probed further in the matter and "the purpose of investigation is to unearth true facts and CBI may do all that is required to achieve that goal".
Referring to a judgement of a superior court, the court also said that as closure reports have been filed in the case several times, so "it would be in the interest of justice if the investigation is monitored by the court on bi-monthly basis (i.E every two months) so that no aspect of the case is left uninvestigated."
"With these directions, CBI is directed to conduct further investigation in the present case. Be listed for further proceedings on February 2, 2016," the judge said.
The order came on a protest petition filed by complainant Lakhvinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed in the anti-Sikh riots, challenging the CBI's closure report exonerating Tytler.
The case pertains to riots at Gurudwara Pulbangash in north Delhi where three people were killed on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
CBI had re-investigated the case of killing of Badal Singh, Thakur Singh and Gurcharan Singh near the gurudwara after a court had in December 2007 refused to accept the closure report. Tytler has denied any role in the riots.
