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1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Jagdish Tytler Threatens To File Criminal Defamation Over 'Sting' Video

IANS, 13 Feb, 2018 12:39 PM
    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. 

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