- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
The agency has invoked charges under sections 147 (rioting), 109 (abetment) read with 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), among others, against Tytler, officials said.
By: Shubham Ghosh
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday (20) filed a charge sheet against Jagdish Tytler, a veteran leader of the Indian National Congress and former federal minister of state, in the Pul Bangash case connected to the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, officials said. Thousands were killed in the riots that took place in various areas of northern and central India.
Three people were killed and a gurdwara was torched in the Pul Bangash area in New Delhi on November 1, 1984, a day after the then prime minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards at her residence in the Indian capital.
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.
The agency has invoked charges under sections 147 (rioting), 109 (abetment) read with 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), among others, against Tytler, the officials said.
The court will consider the charges on June 2, they said.
(With PTI inputs)
