Tytler gets CBI's clean chit, says will now serve people

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has given a clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 riots case.

The CBI has recommended quashing of FIR against the Congress leader.

Speaking to NDTV after getting the clean chit, Tytler said that the case destroyed his career.

"The case destroyed my career. I have been vindicated," said Tytler.

Tytler accused the media of making him a criminal and said that now he intended to serve the people.

Earlier, sources had told NDTV that the CBI in a report to the Delhi High Court had given Tytler a clean chit for his involvement in the riots.

The BJP has consistently argued that the Congress has misused the CBI.

Tytler was accused by the Nanavati Commission, which probed the 1984 riots as having a  "very probable" hand in organising attacks on Sikhs.

But as NDTV reported earlier, things were already looking up for Tytler.

The testimony of Jasbir Singh who claimed he saw Tytler inciting the mobs was critical in the case. The CBI team went to the US to record Jasbir Singh's testimony.

However, in February, NDTV learnt the testimony that CBI recorded in Indian consulates in New York and San Francisco was not clinching.

The CBI report says that Jasbir Singh told the CBI that he was staying with someone called Soocha Singh when he heard Tytler inciting the mobs on November 3. But CBI has been unable to locate anyone who fits Soocha Singh's description.

The second witness Surinder Singh told the CBI that he was hiding in Gurudwara Pul Bangash when he heard Jagdish Tytler telling mobs <i>Maaro</i> or 'Kill'. Surinder Singh also said three employees of the Gurudwara were with him.

But the CBI report said that Surinder Singh had withdrawn his statement to Nanavati commission probing the riots.

The CBI also says Surinder Singh is unable to give the details of these three new witnesses.

"Nobody has told me this yet. I have heard it from you and if it is true then I feel vindicated

My reputation, career, family and children have suffered. I feel relieved today," said Jagdish Tytler.