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Publication: Rediff
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Date: October 30, 2000
A victim of the anti-Sikh
riots on Monday submitted before the Nanawati Commission, probing the violence
after Indira Gandhi's assassination in 1984, that former Union minister
Jagdish Tytler had instigated a mob in a west Delhi locality that killed
his son, nephew and brother-in-law.
"Instead of saving them,
Jagdish Tytler told the persons who had come along with him to Kabir Basti
that 'one Sikh killed my mother (meaning Indira Gandhi) and these Sikhs
are moving quietly', riot victim and an ex-armyman Dilbagh Singh said in
an affidavit filed through his counsel Bajrang Singh.
"On hearing this, the
persons, who had come along with Tytler (on November 1, 1984) started catching
hold of Sikhs, killing and burning them, including his brother-in-law Darshan
Singh, son Surinder Pal Singh and nephew Jagjit Singh," the affidavit alleged.
When Tytler visited the
locality, then Assistant Commissioner of Police Bhagwan Singh Malik and
Station House Officer of Subzi Mandi police station were present there
along with a pose of armed personnel, it claimed.
Darshan Singh's wife,
who visited Kabir Basti next day, had lodged a complaint at Subzi Mandi
police station on November 2, 1984, the affidavit said
The Delhi high court,
earlier this year, had dismissed a petition by Dilbagh Singh seeking registration
of a separate case regarding the killing of his kin saying that there was
no sufficient evidence on record.
