CNN-IBN traces witness that CBI couldn't get

LOST AND FOUND: The main witness against Jadgish Tytler has been found after the CBI declared him untraceable.

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New Delhi: Just hours after the CBI filed an affidavit at a Delhi court on Thursday, virtually exonerating Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case due to lack of evidence and witnesses, CNN-IBN traced the chief witness in the case, Jasbir Singh, in California.

While the CBI had declared that the ‘main witness Jasbir Singh’ is untraceable, it took CNN-IBN only a few hours to locate Singh in his California residence.

In an exclusive telephonic interview, Singh told CNN-IBN that the CBI had not established any contacts with him. “The CBI did not contact me at all,” he said. “It’s been 18 years. No court or commission called me for my testimony.”

“Had they contacted me, I could have given them my testimony,” he said. Jasbir Singh also revealed that instead of the CBI, it was Tytler’s supporters who hounded him all the while and even threatened him and his family.

“I was threatened a lot of times,” he said. “I and my family received threats constantly. I still get calls from the people of Jagdish Tytler. They want me to write and say that he is innocent.”

“Nathuram Nagar, a Congress party councillor, called me 5-6 months back, asking me to take back my statement,” Singh alleged. This was after the numerous statements Singh had given to various media.

When asked about what he had seen during the riots, Jasbir Singh was unequivocal. “I saw Jagdish Tytler, he was instigating the mob,” he said. “In my area, most of Sikhs were murdered.”

HS Phulka, the lawyer representing 1984 riots victims, says that the CBI is trying to muffle the voice of the riot victims.

Singh is ready to return to India and testify but there is a very serious concern that needs to be addressed first. “I want all this to be told in the court,” he said. “I can come to the court and give testimony, but if I come what guarantee do I have that I will be safe?”

“If CBI gives me police protection, I will come back to India and give a statement,” Singh says.