1984 anti-Sikh riots: Magistrate Sanjeev Jain asked the CBI to submit its report
on the recording of the statement of US based Jasbir Singh

New Delhi, Jan 15, 2008
Surinder Singh

On Wednesday, Delhi additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjeev Jain gave some more time to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to submit its report on the recording of the statement of US based Jasbir Singh, a key witness in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots by March 12, 2008

On Monday, the CBI told the Delhi High Court that it will be difficult for it to record the statement of Jasbir Singh, a US-based witness in an anti-Sikh riots case involving Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, through video conferencing.

On December 18, The court had ordered CBI to reinvestigate the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, rejecting its closure report, after the witness surfaced in the United States and expressed his willingness to record his statement against Tytler.

On January 11, Jasbir Singh filed a petition before the High Court seeking to quash a notice issued to him under Section 160 of the CrPC, which empowers the probe agency to seek presence of a witness.

He had sought direction to CBI to record his statement under Section 166 A (1) CrPC that entitles a non-resident Indian to testify in a foreign court at the request of the investigating agency.