1984 riots case: Key witness gets death threat, files police complaint

NEW DELHI: Controversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma, a witness in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, has filed a police complaint claiming that he has been threatened in an email and told not to continue with his polygraph test as a witness against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler.

Verma on Friday had moved a of defending Tytler during his lie-detection test. In his complaint submitted to south Delhi’s Mehrauli police station, Verma has said that he received an “extremely dirty and threatening email” late on Saturday night on his company’s general email address.

Police said that they have registered a case under Section 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication years) of the Indian Penal Code and are investigating the matter.

He alleged that the sender has furnished exact details of his residential address and the cars driven by him and his wife and has threatened to kill him and his family.

Verma claimed that he has been asked to drop the idea of “deshbhakti” (patriotism) and “not continue with my polygraph (lie detector) test at Delhi as a witness against Jagdish Tytler”.

Verma, who currently has three personal security officers providing him security as per the Delhi high court’s directions, demanded that his security be enhanced. He has been undergoing the polygraph test at a forensic laboratory here. He had alleged in his plea before court that FSL officials were holding a “mini trial” and acting in an