New Delhi: Complainant Lakhvinder Kaur recorded her statement before the Special CBI Judge in the Rouse Avenue Court in Delhi yesterday (3 October 2024). Her husband Badal Singh and two other Sikhs were killed in the targeted violence against Sikhs outside Pul Bangash Gurudwara in Delhi on November 1, 1984.
Lakhvinder Kaur (L) Wife of deceased Badal Singh (R) who is compainent in case against Jagdish Tytler regading November 1984 killings of Sikhs outside Pul Bangash Gurdwara Sahib.
The Rouse Avenue court had framed charges against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on September 13, 2024
Lakhwinder Kaur Wife of deceased Badal Singh and compainent in case against Jagdish Tytler November 1984 Pul Bangash Gurdwara
Now the matter has been listed on October 15 for her cross-examination by Jagdish Tytler’s counsel.
She deposed that she was told by Granthi Surender Singh that her husband Badal Singh was killed by the mob at Gurudwara Pul Bangash and Jagidh Tytler was inciting the attackers. In her statement, she said that Granthi Surender Singh told her that Jagdish Tytler was telling the attackers “Sikho ko mar do, ujad do, Gurudwara ko aag laga do” (Kill Sikhs, torch Gurudwara).
Jagdish Tytler with Indira Gandhi’s Ashes along with Rajiv Gandhi in November 1984
HC to hear on Jagdish Tytler’s plea November 29
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday (October 1, 2024) said it would hear on November 29 a plea by Jagidh Tytler challenging the framing of charges of murder and other offences against him in a case related to the killing of three people in north Delhi’s Pul Bangash area during the 1984 anti-Sikh violence.
Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri, after briefly hearing the matter, asked Jagidh Tytler’s counsel to file statements of certain witnesses which were not on record. The high court then listed the matter for further hearing on November 29.