Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 3 : Senior Congress leader and Union Minister A. K. Antony on Friday ruled out the Central Government's role in the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) decision to close the probe against his party leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
"It is not the Central Government's decision. The report was given by the CBI," Antony told reporters at a meet-the-press programme here.
New Delhi - India's federal investigation bureau on Thursday cleared former federal minister Jagdish Tytler of allegations that he led the deadly 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of former premier Indira Gandhi, news reports said.
More than 3,000 Sikhs were killed by rioting mobs of Congress Party sympathizers and leaders after Gandhi was shot by her Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984.
New Delhi, Apr 2 : Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Thursday said the Central Bureau of Investigation's clean chit to him had once again proved his innocence in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
"I was given clean chit earlier also. But a political conspiracy was hatched against me. I am innocent. The truth has come out once again," said Tytler, the Congress candidate from North-East Delhi.
He also blamed the media for keeping the issue alive.
New Delhi, Apr 2: The Kakardooma Court will today consider the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) final investigation report on former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler''s involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
On March 28, the CBI filed the report in a sealed envelope before Metropolitan Magistrate Ram Lal Meena.
The CBI is reported to have said that there is no evidence against Tytler, sources said.
New Delhi, Mar 12: A Delhi court today pulled up CBI for its failure to file status report in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
The court also directed the CBI to file its report in the case involving Tytler within a week.
The CBI, in January, was granted some more time by the court to file the investigation report in the anti-Sikh riots case.
The agency was supposed to submit its report on March 12.
Thiruvananthapuram, Apr 3 : Senior Congress leader and Union Minister A. K. Antony on Friday ruled out the Central Government's role in the Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) decision to close the probe against his party leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
New Delhi - India's federal investigation bureau on Thursday cleared former federal minister Jagdish Tytler of allegations that he led the deadly 1984 anti-Sikh riots that followed the assassination of former premier Indira Gandhi, news reports said.
New Delhi, Apr 2 : Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Thursday said the Central Bureau of Investigation's clean chit to him had once again proved his innocence in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
New Delhi, Apr 2: The Kakardooma Court will today consider the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) final investigation report on former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler''s involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
New Delhi, Mar 12: A Delhi court today pulled up CBI for its failure to file status report in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.
