Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has threatened to bring criminal defamation charges against those behind a video that allegedly links him to the 1984 riots.
In a memorandum submitted to the home ministry, Tytler has claimed that the video was doctored, and said that investigations by a “reputed forensic laboratory” that he had sent the video to said his images were superimposed in the video.
"It was a morphed video. I will file a criminal defamation case against those who were involved in making the video," Tytler told reporters.
A Sikh organisation recently released a video that they claimed had Tytler admitting to his involvement in the riots that killed nearly 3,000 Sikhs—most of them in Delhi—according to the official estimates.
A delegation of the Shiromani Akali Dal met Home Minister Rajnath Singh last week to demand the Congress leader’s arrest.
The Bharatiya Janata Party has already registered a complaint with police and has demanded Tytler’s arrest.
The riots broke out in the aftermath of then prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination on October 31, 1984.
