CBI had sought dismissal of the victim’s plea saying the probe has made it clear that Tytler was not present on November 1, 1984 at Gurudwara Pulbangash in North Delhi where three people were killed during the riots and was rather at Teen Murti Bhawan, where Indira Gandhi’s body was lying in state. CBI had sought dismissal of the victim’s plea saying the probe has made it clear that Tytler was not present on November 1, 1984 at Gurudwara Pulbangash in North Delhi where three people were killed during the riots and was rather at Teen Murti Bhawan, where Indira Gandhi’s body was lying in state.

A Delhi court on Friday ordered fresh probe against Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, rejecting the clean chit earlier given by the CBI to the Congress leader.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) SPS Laler refused to accept CBI’s closure report, ordering the agency to further probe the role of Tytler in the riots in which over 3000 people from Sikh communtiy were killed.

The CBI had earlier told the court that Tytler “was not involved” in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case relating to an attack on Gurdwara in Pulbangash.

The agency had sought dismissal of the victim’s plea saying the probe has made it clear that Tytler was not present on November 1, 1984 at Gurudwara Pulbangash in North Delhi where three people were killed during the riots and was rather at Teen Murti Bhawan, where Indira Gandhi’s body was lying in state.

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