By IANS,
New Delhi : Dismissing the plea of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), a city court Tuesday made it clear that it can take cognizance of the closure report giving a clean chit to former central minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit said the court can take cognizance of the offence exclusively to be tried by the sessions court and summon the accused mentioned in the charge sheet as well as those not mentioned in it, if it appears to the court that they are also involved in the offence.
Earlier, the CBI contended that the court cannot take cognizance on its closure report filed April 2 as it was not in its jurisdiction.
The court will take up the closure report Sep 23.
The CBI had in 2007 said Tytler was not involved in the Nov 1, 1984, incident when a mob set the Gurdwara Pulbangash in north Delhi on fire, killing three people, but the court refused to accept the closure report and asked the agency to investigate the matter.
Then on the directions of the Delhi High Court, the statement of a witness Jasbir Singh was recorded in the US.