New Delhi: After a year long legal battle, a two-member CBI team in the US has finally questioned Jasbir Singh, eyewitnesses of the 1984 riots, in California and another witness Surinder Singh will give his statement to the CBI on Wednesday in New York. The CBI officers are on a 10-day trip
The testimony of these two men can be damaging for Congress leader and former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler.
"Yes he was questioned about Tytler's role and the answer given by Surinder Singh was that Tytler incited the mob and led the mob that killed 36 inside the gurdwara,” says lawyer of Surinder Singh, Gurpatwant Singh Pannu.
The witnesses had refused to come to India as they claimed their life was in danger. The CBI had been insisting that the witnesses will have to depose before an Indian court. The agency promised to give security and bear the cost of travel expenses of the witnesses
Both the eyewitnesses blamed the CBI for not conducting a fair trial in the case and accused the agency of protecting Tytler.
The country's apex investigating agency has earlier been pulled up for its lackadaisical attitude in probing cases of anti-Sikh riots of 1984 by a Delhi court.
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