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{ 1984 ANTI-SIKH RIOTS } Tytler told mob to loot, kill Sikhs, says witness
Hindustan Times Amritsar
|July 13, 2025
An eyewitness in north Delhi's Pul Bangash Gurdwara case related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots deposed before a Delhi court, saying she had seen Congress leader Jagdish Tytler instigating the mob and asking them to “loot and kill Sikhs”.
She also said that she was not pressured by the CBI or Sikh leaders to implicate Tytler.
Harpal Kaur Bedi, 70, also claimed that she kept mum, fearing for her only son’s life and revealed Tytler's name for the first time in 2016 to the CBI after her son passed away. Special judge Jitendra Singh recorded the statement of Bedi, an eyewitness to the killing of three men by a mob that torched the gurdwara during the riots.
“When I was on a footpath in front of Pul Bangash Gurdwara (on November 1, 1984), I saw Jagdish Tytler (who) came in a white Ambassador car. Tytler and three other persons came out of the car. He asked the mob standing there to loot and kill the Sikhs and loot the gurdwara,” Bedi said.
This story is from the July 13, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Amritsar.
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