NEW DELHI: A Delhi court will decide on July 19 whether to take cognisance of a charge sheet filed against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a case related to the alleged Pul Bangash killings during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidhi Gupta Anand reserved the order on July 7 after hearing arguments from prosecuting agency Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as well as the counsel appearing for the complainant.
The judge directed the court staff to check whether the case records, received from another court which was earlier hearing the case, is complete in all respects and file a report by July 19, the next date of hearing.
The judge at the Rouse Avenue Courts noted that the records, filed by the staff of a Karkardooma court, were bulky and were contained in seven judicial files. The judge also directed the CBI to file the report from the Forensic Science Laboratory regarding the forensic examination of voice samples of Tytler. The CBI had on May 20 filed a charge sheet against Tytler in the case.
Three people were killed and a gurdwara was torched in the Pul Bangash area here on November 1, 1984, a day after the then-prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated. In its charge sheet filed before a special court here, the CBI said Tytler “incited, instigated and provoked the mob assembled at Pul Bangash Gurdwara Azad Market” on November 1, 1984, that resulted in burning down of the gurdwara and killing of three Sikhs -- Thakur Singh, Badal Singh and Guru Charan Singh.
Hearing in Tytler case on July 19 express news service @ New Delhi The Territorial Army company assigned to protect and clean the Yamuna floodplains in Delhi has been withdrawn, officials said on Saturday. The National Mission for Clean Ganga provided the company of the Territorial Army (TA) earlier this year to boost river cleaning efforts.
In a report submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) said the “Territorial Army (has been) withdrawn with effect from June 30”. A senior NMCG official said that the company was part of the Ecological Task Force (ETF) of the Territorial Army working for the NMCG in Kanpur, Varanasi and Prayagraj.
“It was temporarily deployed for the Yamuna cleaning work in Delhi,” said the official. “This company was brought to Delhi to create awareness among the people... to prevent dumping of waste into the Yamuna. It was a small special drive and it’s over now,” the official said. The DPCC in its report said immediate alternate measures need to be put in place following the withdrawal of the TA company. Territorial Army personnel
