1984 anti-Sikh riots case: Court gives CBI final chance to finish probe

New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was today given the last chance to complete its further probe in two months in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler was earlier given the clean chit.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Shivali Sharma pulled up the CBI for not taking proper steps to complete the probe, as directed by the court earlier, and made it clear that if no fruitful results were shown in these two months, the agency’s Superintendent of Police would have to explain.
The court’s direction came when the CBI prosecutor filed a status report of the ongoing probe and sought two more months to file the final report.
Senior advocate HS Phoolka, who was representing complainant Lakhvinder Kaur (riot victim), argued that he had the right to know the status of the probe and said the CBI should be asked to give a copy of its communication with the High Commission of Canada regarding some information.
The court posed several questions to the CBI, such as when it was going to file the final probe report, what was the problem in giving to the complainant a copy of its letter written to the High Commission of Canada and why it had not given available details of one Narinder Singh, the son of a key witness against Tytler, to Interpol. “Why are you (CBI) not giving the Canada address of Narinder Singh to Interpol and the Canadian authorities? You are not giving them complete details and you still want Interpol to help you and trace the person for you? How is it possible?” the ACMM said.