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84′ Sikh Genocide: Tytler moves HC against re-probe

New Delhi:  Congress leader Jagdish Tytler today moved the Delhi High Court against the trial court’s order for reopening of investigation against him in a 29-year-old Sikh genocide case in which three persons were killed. Tytler has challenged the trial court order setting aside the CBI’s closure report giving him clean chit in the case. The appeal is likely to be ...

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Sikhs unite against Sajjan

New Delhi: The Sikh rally held at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday was possibly the largest gathering of Sikhs in the Capital. They had gathered to protest the acquittal of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 Sikh genocide case by a Delhi court on April 30. The Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee ( DSGPC) and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC) had ...

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The Sikh who won’t give up

Delhi, India: I don’t know if the universe likes irony or whether these are just coincidences that only reporters are interested in. Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has spent a large part of his life living on a road in the capital called the Gurudwara Rakabganj road, and has spent a substantial part of that time defending himself against the killing ...

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1984 Sikh Genocide case: Closing arguments by lawyers for victims’ families today

New Delhi: More than 28 years after the horrific massacre of Sikhs across the country in the wake of the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 3, 1984, the lawyer for the families of the 1984 genocide victims will conclude their arguments in the case. It is a crucial day for Congress leader Sajjan Kumar, who was charged ...

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1984 Sikh Genocide case: Trial court rejects CBI claims

New Delhi, India: A trial court on Tuesday dismissed the CBI’s contention that it was not under a metropolitan magistrate’s jurisdiction to decide on the agency’s probe report giving clean chit to former Union minister Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. After almost five months of gruelling arguments with CBI questioning the jurisdiction of a magisterial court on ...

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