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Khurana challenges Tytler to prove innocence on riot charges

Challenging his political rival Jagdish Tytler to take him to court for defamation, former Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Madan Lal Khurana today said he has sufficient evidence to prove the Congress leader's involvement in the 1984 riots.

Stressing that the notice for defamation proceedings, which Tytler had sent through his lawyer, was not sufficient, Khurana urged the former Union transport minister to move the court as that it will give him an opportunity to place all facts related to the riots and prove the latter's involvement in it.

Refuting the charge of Tytler that the issue was being raised because of the elections, the BJP leader said elections or no elections he had been fighting for justice for the riot victims for the last 15 years and will continue his fight till the guilty are brought to book.

Addressing a press conference in Delhi this morning, he asked Tytler to seek trial in the case if he was so confident of his innocence. Khurana said even the Justice R S Narula Committee, which was constituted to fix responsibility for the riots, had recommended that the government should investigate the involvement of Tytler in the riots along with H K L Bhagat and Sajjan Kumar. The relevant portions of the report was read out at the press conference.

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