Congress leader Jagdish Tytler on Thursday told a Delhi court that there was no legally admissible evidence to frame charges against him in a defamation complaint filed by a senior advocate representing the victims in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases.<\/p>\n
Tytler\u2019s counsel argued that the complaint was filed by senior counsel HS Phoolka regarding the alleged defamatory statements made against him by the Congress leader in a TV news programme aired on September 7, 2004 and there was a long and \u201cinordinate delay\u201d in the proceedings of this matter.<\/p>\n
Additional chief metropolitan magistrate Gaurav Rao renotified the matter for further arguments on January 24, after Tytler\u2019s counsel submitted that the primary evidence filed by the complainant was based on a video cassette, which is electronic evidence, but it could not be filed in the court with proper certificate, as mandated by law.<\/p>\n
Phoolka\u2019s counsel, however, countered his submissions contending that the complaint, statement of the complainant and other witnesses corroborating it were enough to frame charges against Tytler.<\/p>\n
In his complaint filed in 2006, Phoolka had alleged that Tytler had levelled \u201cfalse and derogatory\u201d allegations against him to harm his reputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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