An Indian minister resigned on Wednesday after a probe panel said there was strong suspicion that he organised the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in which nearly 3,000 Sikhs were massacred in New Delhi.
Jagdish Tytler, minister for expatriate Indians, said he had submitted his resignation to Sonia Gandhi, president of the ruling Congress party, and asked her to forward it to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
"I have not done this under any pressure," he told reporters. "I want to get my name cleared. I did not want to put my party in any difficulty."
The Nanavati Commission report that probed the riots has said that there is "credible evidence" Tytler "very probably" had a hand in organising the riots.
The probe ordered by the then BJP government in 2000 was the ninth to be held into the carnage.
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