New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday denied Delhi Court that no fresh FIR has been lodged against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on allegations of influencing witness and money laundering.
Notify that Tytler had been earlier given a clean chit in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
The Response of CBI had came over the query of court on whether the agency had registered any case against Tytler under Sections 193 (punishment for false evidence), 195 A (threatening a person to give false evidence) of IPC and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Saurabh Pratap Singh Laler said, “An application has been moved on behalf of victim to know from the CBI as to whether an FIR or separate complaint has been registered under Sections 193 and 195 of IPC and PMLA. In this regard, question has been asked by the court to the public prosecutor. He says no separate FIR has been filed. The application stands disposed of.”
The next date of case had been fixed by court for July 30 for filing of protest petition against the CBI’s third closure report giving clean chit to Tytler in the case.
Senior advocate H.S. Phoolka and advocate Kamna Vohra, who were representing the victims, sought four weeks’ time to file the protest petition.
Bureau Report
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