22 Facts About Jagdish Tytler

Jagdish Tytler was born on Jagdish Kapoor; 17 August 1944 and is an Indian politician and former Member of Parliament.

Jagdish Tytler has held several government positions, the last being as Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs, a post from which he resigned after publication of a report by an official commission of inquiry, known as the Nanavati Commission.

Jagdish Tytler has not been charged with any crimes related to those riots.

Jagdish Tytler was brought up by the educationist James Douglas Tytler, the founder of many public schools including the Delhi Public School and the Summer Fields School.

Jagdish Tytler served as a Union Minister first in the Civil Aviation department and then in the Labor department.

Jagdish Tytler was re-elected in 1991 and served as the Union Minister of State for Surface Transport.

Jagdish Tytler has been accused of involvement in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, a charge that he denies.

Jagdish Tytler stated that he was present at Teen Murti Bhavan for the funeral ceremony with Gandhi's body and was in mourning at the time when these events occurred at Gurudwara Pulbangash, situated near Azad Market.

Jagdish Tytler has not been charged with any crimes related to the 1984 riots.

In 2019, Jagdish Tytler said of the controversy surrounding the anti-Sikh riot accusations that.

Jagdish Tytler, who had been appointed minister of state with independent charge of non-resident affairs, claimed innocence, saying that it was a case of mistaken identity.

Jagdish Tytler said he had not been in the area at the time and that eight earlier commissions of inquiry had exonerated him.

Phoolka filed a case in the Ludhiana court against Jagdish Tytler, accusing Jagdish Tytler of defaming him during a television programme in the same year.

Jagdish Tytler had claimed that Phoolka is making money by blackmailing people.

On 18 December 2007, the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Delhi court, Sanjeev Jain, who had earlier dismissed the case after the CBI's report to his court, ordered the CBI to reopen cases against Jagdish Tytler relating to the riots.

Jagdish Tytler accused the media of victimizing him through a media trial.

Jagdish Tytler blamed the Shiromani Akali Dal and his "enemies" within the Congress party for scuttling his nomination.

Jagdish Tytler has made statements with an intention to falsely implicate Tytler.

CBI had produced a CD before the court to prove that Jagdish Tytler was not at the location of riot but was present at the residence of Indira Gandhi.

Jagdish Tytler is married to Jennifer, daughter of a Scottish mother and an Irish father, born in Delhi, who is the principal of the J D Tytler School.

Jagdish Tytler was raised by a Christian minister, however he identifies himself as a Hindu.

Jagdish Tytler claimed that he is a Hindu and had visited the Puri temple four times in the past.