BJP Leader Files Complaint Against Tytler Over Video on 1984 Riots

Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal also called for Tytler’s immediate arrest and registration of a fresh case.

Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

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BJP leader RP Singh, also the national secretary of the party, has filed a complaint against senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, after the President of the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee Manjit Singh GK said that he had handed over a video which showed Tytler detailing his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots to the CBI.

Addressing a press conference on Monday, 5 February, Singh said that he had acquired some video clips of Tytler accepting his role in the riots, and demanded that he be “arrested and prosecuted, before he left the country.”

According to a report by The Indian Express, an unidentified person had left a pendrive with the video files at Singh’s doorstep. At the press conference, Singh also demanded that a polygraph and lie detector test be conducted on Tytler.

Following Singh’s press conference, Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal called for Tytler’s immediate arrest and registration of a fresh case to fix Congress leader Rajiv Gandhi's "direct role" in the riot killings.

Jagdish Tytler’s open confession that he personally killed 100 Sikhs and his disclosure that Rajiv Gandhi was present along with him on the Delhi streets at that time proves that the late Prime Minister was not only a conspirator, but an active partner in the crime and the principal mover and motivator behind it

Sukhbir Singh Badal

According to IANS, Badal was referring to an alleged video of Tytler that went viral on Monday, wherein the controversial Congress leader made sensational disclosures regarding the killing of the Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere.

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal too demanded that Tytler be arrested. Speaking outside the Parliament on Tuesday, Badal said:

It’s been 34 years, Sikhs were massacred. No one was punished, everyone knows who did that. Tytler now himself admitted that he was behind this. Why is he not being arrested? He must be arrested and narco test be done on him.

Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Meanwhile, AAP leader and senior advocate HS Phoolka demanded that the CBI should verify the authenticity of the video clippings.

"Manjit Singh has five video clippings of a sting operation against Tytler, wherein he admits to killing 100 Sikhs and other offences. The question being asked is their relevance and admissibility and whether the CBI can act on the basis of these videos," said Phoolka, who has been fighting cases on behalf of the survivors of the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi and elsewhere in the wake of that assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

He said these videos have been handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation in a case pending a probe by the central agency. Phoolka said that a Delhi court had directed the CBI to investigate allegations against Tytler for the alleged murder of three Sikhs and money laundering by transferring Rs 5 crore to Canada through hawala channels.

He demanded that the CBI should send these videos for a Forensic test to check their veracity. After verification, the CBI is duty-bound to act on the basis of these videos and carry out custodial interrogation of Tytler after arresting him, the Aam Aadmi Party leader said.

"These videos cannot be ignored just on the flimsy ground that their source is not authentic," he added.

(With inputs from IANS)