CBI opposes plea for further probe in ’84 riots case

The CBI on Wednesday opposed a plea filed in a city court by a 1984 anti-Sikh riots victim seeking further probe in a case of killing of three persons in which Congress leader Jagdish Tytler has been given a clean chit by the agency. CBI prosecutor Sanjay Kumar told additional sessions judge Anuradha Shukla Bhardwaj that complainant Lakhwinder Kaur, whose husband Badal Singh was killed in the riots, has no “locus standi” in the case as she was the complainant in the main killings case. “She has no locus standi as she was neither a complainant nor a witness or an informant in the main case. The petition is not maintainable and should be dismissed,” the prosecutor argued. The final arguments, however, could not be advanced further as senior advocate H.S. Phoolka, counsel for Lakhwinder Kaur who had filed the petition, could not reach the court due to lawyers’ strike at Karkardooma Court complex. The court would hear further arguments in the case on April 4. The court was hearing final arguments on the petition challenging CBI’s closure report and clean chit to Jagdish Tytler in the case.