NEW DELHI—Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shivali Sharma took on the CBI for delay in contacting Canadian government to obtain required information about a case of 1984 Sikh genocide against Jagdish Tytler.
The Court had ordered the CBI on July 11 to contact the Canadian government about the possibility of interrogating Narinder Singh. The report was due on September 8, however CBI only filed a request with the Canadian Government on this day.
Narinder Singh is son of Surinder Singh, the key eyewitness against Jagdish Tytler. Surinder Singh was the head granthi at Gurdwara Pulbangesh in Azad market when he saw Tytler leading a mob during the November 1984 anti-Sikh massacres. In his statement to the CBI, Surinder Singh had claimed that on October 31, 1984, around 8 pm at night, mobs put several cars and Sikh residences on fire outside the Gurdwara.
In his statement, Surinder Singh stated that he further saw Tytler on November 1, 1984, leading another a group of armed mobs carrying iron rods, kerosene cans and Congress flags as they attacked the gurdwara. At that time, Tytler was inciting the mobs to punish the Sikhs for Indira Gandhi’s murder.
Jagdish Tytler later bribed Surinder Singh with huge sums of money and helped settle his son Narinder Singh overseas. The Court has now directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to present the monthly investigation report on October 25.
