NEW DELHI: CBI was pulled up by a city court on Wednesday for delaying in communicating to Canada for help in tracing a witness of a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case in which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler was earlier given a clean chit.
The court expressed displeasure saying the agency had delayed in writing a letter to the Canadian government seeking details of Narinder Singh, son of a prime witness against Tytler, which it did only on September 8 even though the order was given on July 11.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Shivali Sharma asked CBI’s Superintendent of Police, who is supervising the probe, to appear before the court on October 25 to apprise it about the status of investigation.
The court called the senior officer while observing that the position of the probe in the case was the same as it was on July 11, the last date of hearing.
CBI, however, said its domestic probe was almost done and it would take some time to complete offshore investigation. The prosecutor also said that the CBI has sent a communication to the Canadian authorities to verify the address of Narinder in Canada and the reply was awaited.
The case pertains to the riots at Gurudwara Pulbangash in Delhi where three people were killed on November 1, 1984, a day after the assassination of then PM Indira Gandhi. (PTI)
