Tag: Jagdish Tytler

MCD: Congress appoints Jagdish Tytler poll panel member

The BJP slammed the Congress for including 1984 anti-Sikh riots accused Jagdish Tytler in the party's Pradesh Election Committee for the December 4 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.

November 10, 2022

SAD blasts Cong for naming 1984 Riots accused Jagdish Tytler as permanent invitee to Delhi Congress

Badal also dared the Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu and Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi to show the moral courage to oppose this decision and get it rescinded.

October 30, 2021

1984 riots: Amarinder calls Gandhis ‘innocent’, flays Sukhbir Badal for blaming the family

Sukhbir had on Wednesday asked Congress president Rahul Gandhi to tell the people whether he would expel Jagdish Tytler from the Congress and remove Kamal Nath from the post of chief minister of Madhya Pradesh or wait for them to be sentenced by courts before taking action against them.

December 20, 2018

Anti-Sikh Riots Case: Punjab BJP questioned Sidhu’s presence at Kamal Nath swearing-in

The BJP leader said the Congress party had unleashed terror on the roads of the national capital in 1984 and got thousands of Sikhs killed through its four villains – Jagdish Tytler, Sajjan Kumar, HKL Bhagat and Kamal Nath.

December 18, 2018

Cong directive to Tytler, Sajjan ‘hypocrisy’: SAD

With Congress leaders, Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, getting directed to stay away from party’s day-long fast against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday said it was another example of Congress hypocrisy. In a Press statement, SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema...

April 9, 2018

Akali Dal seeks Tytler’s narco test

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday demanded the Congress leader Jagdish Tytler should be subjected to polygraphy and narco test to ascertain the role the former Prime Minister (PM) Rajiv Gandhi and all other accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and other parts of the country. Addressing a Press conference, Sukhbir Singh...

February 10, 2018

’84 riots: MHA refers DGMC’s ‘fresh evidence’ against Tytler to SIT

The Union Home Ministry has forwarded the “fresh evidence” against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler submitted by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DGMC) to the SIT headed by Justice S.N. Dhingra that is probing the mayhem. On Friday, the Ministry in a letter to Justice Dhingra stated that it has received a complaint from the...

February 10, 2018

BJP seeks Rajnath’s nod for Tytler’s prosecution in ’84 riots case

A BJP delegation on Friday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh demanding immediate prosecution of Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on the basis of fresh evidence in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The delegation of the Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sikh leaders was led by party’s Secretary, R.P. Singh. They also submitted a memorandum. In...

February 9, 2018

Tytler’s sting: SAD seeks case against Gandhi family

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday demanded registration of a case against the Gandhi family for allegedly engineering the massacre of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi and in other parts of the country following release of evidence to this effect in a sting operation conducted on party leader, Jagdish Tytler. The...

February 5, 2018

Polygraph test of 1984 riots witness postponed

Arms dealer Abhishek Verma, a witness in a 1984 riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, said that the CBI told him on Friday that it has postponed his polygraph test as the lie detection machine has broken down. “CBI Investigating Officer called me at 2.20 p.m. today (Friday), saying that (someone from) the FSL...

November 24, 2017

Conclude 1984 riot witness’ polygraph test by month-end: Court

A court here on Wednesday directed that the lie detector test of arms dealer Abhishek Verma, a witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against Congress Leader Jagdish Tytler, should be concluded by the end of November. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Arora’s direction comes after defence counsel gave consent to the appointment of noted...

November 1, 2017

1984 riots case: Extend enhanced security to witness, says Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court today asked the police to extend the additional security provided to controversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma, a witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, till he undergoes the lie detection test later this month. The court also directed the Delhi Police to comply with its previous order by which it was...

October 10, 2017

‘1984 anti-Sikh riots case hearing on 21 July’

A Delhi court has ruled that hearing on a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case will be held on 21 July in which the CBI has pleaded for permission for Congress leader Jagdish Tytler’s polygraph test. Tytler has been given a clean chit thrice. The court has asked for the CBI investigating officer's response on a plea...

July 18, 2017

Court makes Tytler to submit his passport to CBI, asks agency to decide on FIR

Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Tuesday appeared before a Patiala House Court in a case wherein he was accused of hiding details of cases pending against him. The court summoned him after noting that he got his passport renewed by filing affidavit that he didn’t have any criminal case pending against him. The court asked...

May 23, 2017

Akali Dal seeks Jagdish Tytler’s expulsion

The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday demanded expulsion of senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler from the party over his alleged refusal to undergo detector test in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. In a statement here, member of Parliament and senior Akali leader Prem Singh Chandumajra said Tytler was running away from subjecting himself to a lie detector...

May 10, 2017

Make stand clear on polygraphy, court tells Tytler

A court here on Tuesday asked Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and arms dealer Abhishek Verma to make their stands clear — by personal appearance or an affidavit on May 22 — whether they will undergo lie-detector test in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shivali Sharma directed Tytler and Verma to record...

May 9, 2017

Tytler refuses lie detector test in anti-Sikh riots case

Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Thursday told a court here that he is not ready to undergo a lie detector test in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. Tytler's counsel told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shivali Sharma at the Karkardooma court that the CBI had not given any specific reason in its application seeking a polygraph...

March 30, 2017