New Delhi, Dec 08: The Nanavati Commission, probing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, today asked senior Congress leaders Jagish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar and Pondicherry IGP U K Katna and other noticees to reply by January nine to the evidence brought against them on record by the witnesses. The commission headed by Justice G T Nanavati had issued notices to them and 23 others under the commission of inquiry act asking them to produce evidence in their defence as it felt their reputation was likely to be "prejudicially affected" by the inquiry report.
The noticees were today supplied with the materials and were directed to reply to the evidence brought against them in respect of the riots that followed the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Asked to comment on the evidence which has come against him before the commission, Tytler said "it is all concocted story and evidence is completely fabricated".
"Everything againSt me is politically motivated," Tytler, who was accompanied by his advocate R K Anand, said.
"This is the first time my name has been mentioned (before the commission) after 18 years," he said claiming that neither an FIR nor any police official ever visited him in connection with the riots which followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
Sajjan Kumar, acquitted last December by a trial court in a riot case, was represented by his counsel, who said "we have to go through the document before commenting on the issue".
Bureau Report