CBI file report in an anti-Sikh riot case against Jagdish Tytler

NEW DELHI: The CBI on Thursday got some more time from a city court to file its report in an anti-Sikh riot case allegedly involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler as key witness Jasbir Singh’s petition to record his testimony in the US is pending before the Delhi High Court.

Taking into account the HC’s notice to the CBI over Singh’s petition, additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sanjiv Jain asked the agency to file its report on March 12.

The court had on December 18 ordered the CBI to reinvestigate the case, after the witness surfaced in the US and expressed his willingness to record his statement against Mr Tytler. The CBI had on September 29 sought to close the case against the former Union minister, declaring Singh as untraced.

The CBI, which was to file status report on Thursday, submitted that since the HC had issued notice to returnable by February 27, the matter should be put off to a later date.