New Delhi, February 9

Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has been directed by a Delhi court to appear before it on Friday on a CBI plea seeking permission to conduct lie-detection test on him in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

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Besides Tytler, CBI has also sought conduct of the test on arms dealer Abhishek Verma. Verma has made several statements to CBI against the senior Congress leader that he allegedly pressurised witnesses in the case. Verma has made several statements to CBI against the senior Congress leader that he allegedly pressurised witnesses in the case.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate yesterday asked Tytler and Verma to appear before him tomorrow at 4 pm to ascertain their stand on the plea.

The agency moved a written application in the Karkardooma court on the issue after the arms dealer’s accusation against the Congress politician of influencing a witness, Surender Singh, by giving him money and promising to send his son Narender Singh to Canada.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had earlier given a clean chit to Tytler in the case but reopened investigation following December 4, 2015, court order in the wake of Verma's allegation.

The court also ordered the agency to found out whether Verma's statement was authentic.

The case pertains to death of three Sikhs in the aftermath of the riots that broke out after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. — Agencies