PTI

New Delhi, Apr 2: Amid objections by Opposition BJP, the CBI has given a clean chit to senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case. The agency’s report was desealed in court on Thursday.

In its report, the Central Bureau of Investigation has also said that the FIR against Tytler should be cancelled. The CBI informed a Delhi court that it wanted to close the investigation into the case.

The CBI counsel told Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Rakesh Pandit that "We have filed the cancellation report in the matter and want to close the investigation."

Earlier, the court had ordered the opening of the sealed envelope containing the final investigation report, filed on March 28 and other status reports submitted by the CBI during the probe.

H S Phoolka, counsel for Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee, raised objections over the alleged leak of the report to Tytler who had claimed innocence in the case.

"CBI seems to be hand in gloves with the accused who claims that he has been given clean chit," he said.

The court has now fixed the matter for April 9. Earlier, the probe agency had on September 29, 2007, sought to close the case against Tytler. But the court had on December 19, 2007, asked it to file the investigation report after Jasbir Singh, a witness, surfaced and expressed his willingness to depose against the Congress leader.

The case against Tytler relates to an incident on November 1, 1984, when a mob set afire Gurudwara Pulbangash killing three persons in the riots that had broken out after the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.