Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath directed strict action in the case as Opposition leaders targeted his Bharatiya Janata Party government over the crime. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said the case should not be politicised.
A two-member special CBI team has arrived in New York en route to San Fransisco to record the statement of Singh, who is now based in California in the US west-coast. Though Singh has been making allegations for the past three years, he has repeatedly refused to return to India to testify before the special courts hearing the 1984 riot cases, saying he feared for his life.
Himanta Biswa Sarma -- who is also the North East Democratic Alliance convenor -- took the oath of office and secrecy in Assamese.
After intense confabulations and consensus-building lasting over eight hours, BJP on Wednesday announced the names of 62 candidates for Delhi assembly elections and decided to field former state unit president Vijendra Gupta against Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
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On Wednesday, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh were in Bengaluru to oversee a special secret ballot election process within BJP MLAs from Karnataka to choose the next chief minister. The two candidates were D V Sadananda Gowda and Jagdish Shettar.
'Some BJP old timers have remarked that the BJP is now driven by its own high command, the way the Congress was under Mrs Gandhi, says Subir Roy.
The Central Bureau of Investigation feels the two witnesses examined by its team in the United States in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were not credible enough and failed to give any proof linking former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler to the rioters.
Jasbir Singh, a key witness in the anti-Sikh riots case against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler, on Friday said that the Central Bureau of Investigation should approach him in the United States to record his statement as he feared for his life in India. "I will give 100 per cent cooperation to them (CBI) if they approach me here (California). Why won't I cooperate? For 23 years, I am waiting for justice," Singh told NDTV.
On October 5, 2019, the sessions court hearing the matter had said that as per Supreme Court orders, all evidence has to be presented before December 24, 2019, which would be the last working day.
Eight policemen including two special police officers were arrested when they were caught red handed in a sting operation drive by senior police officers in Jammu.
Appearing for the CBI, additional solicitor general P P Malhotra told Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul that Singh had never appeared before the agency to prove his credentials, so it would be difficult to record his statement through video conferencing.
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Taking into account the High Court's notice to the CBI, over Singh's petition seeking to record his version through video-conferencing from America, the court asked the agency to file its report under Section 173 CrPC (investigation report) on March 12.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday concluded its arguments before a Delhi court by supporting its closure report giving a clean chit to former Union Minister Jagdish Tytler in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case and terming the witnesses' statements as "false and concocted".
"In view of threats to my life (in coming back), the officials of CBI should come here (California) to record my statement in the case," Jasbir Singh was quoted by news channel NDTV in a telephonic interview.
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A bench of justices G S Sistani and G P Mittal also asked Kumar to appear before the Registrar General of the high court to furnish bail bonds on September 2 in the case.
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Singh is being probed in an alleged extortion case and three men, allegedly his aides, have been already arrested for extortion.
The Central Bureau of Investigation, on Tuesday, cited statements of witnesses, including an eye-witness Surinder Singh, to a local court in an attempt to justify its closure report in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case against former union minister Jagdish Tytler.
The government on Thursday recommended the rejection of five mercy petitions including that of Surendra Koli sent to the gallows for the infamous serial killing of children in Nithari in Noida and of two sisters sentenced to death for murdering several children.
Condemning the shoe hurling incident, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said that the Congress should take lessons from it and withdraw its anti-Sikh riot accused candidates from the Lok Sabha elections. The saffron party urged its rival Congress to reconsider the candidature of anti-Sikh riot accused Sajjan Kumar and Jagdish Tytler, who are contesting the Lok Sabha elections on Congress tickets, from South Delhi and North East respectively.
The Delhi unit of the Akali Dal (Badal) took out a march in Delhi demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Minister Jagdish Tytler.
The top court, which had earlier fixed August 31 as the deadline for completion of proceedings including pronouncement of the verdict, took note of the report filed by special judge S K Yadav in the high-profile case.
The attack on Jagdish Grewal, editor of the Punjabi daily Punjabi Post, in suburban Brampton on October 23 is reminiscent of the assault on Tara Singh Hayer, a journalist who was murdered in 1998 in Vancouver. Both events are attributed to differences between the moderate and hardcore pro-'Khalistan' Sikhs.Both invited the ire of militant Sikhs who want to keep the demand for a separate state of Khalistan alive.
Central Bureau of Investigation Special Court Judge Shiv Pal Singh, hearing the case, was quick to reply, "Then play the tabla (musical instrument)".
Months after an infuriated Iraqi scribe flung a shoe at US President George Bush, an angry journalist -- apparently upset over Congress leader Jagdish Tytler being given a clean chit over his alleged role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots -- flung a shoe at Home Minister Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Demanding registration of murder cases against those involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the Shiromai Akali Dal asked PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to ensure justice to victims of the senseless violence or else quit.
According to the chief minister's wife, she, her mother-in-law, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia wife and Health Minister Satyendar Jain's wife had gone to meet them at the L-G office, but were not allowed.
So far, 29 out of 31 accused have been convicted by the court.
Kamala succeeded as she identified herself with the larger minority groups rather than narrow ethnicity, prodded by her mother who did not want to return to India, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan, who has done multiple stints in India's embassy in Washington, DC.
The BJP's rediscovery of its allies, including the PM touching the feet of Parakash Singh Badal, would be interpreted as the party's efforts to keep its flock together if it falls short of the majority mark on May 23.
SAD president Prakash Singh Badal said the appointment of Tytler as a minister of state with independent charge in the Manmohan Singh government shows the Congress' indifference towards Punjab and Sikhs.
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