A JOURNALIST tossed a shoe at Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a news conference in Delhi to protest the Central Bureau of Investi- gation's clean chit to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The shoe didn't hit the min- ister who got out of the way just in time. The journalist, Jarnail Singh, was promptly led out of the conference being held at the Congress head- quarters. Chidambaram car- ried on with the briefing. But the incident touched a raw nerve in the Congress, prompting a section of the party to support a rethink on party tickets to Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar - who have faced charges of involvement in the anti-Sikh riots. Party sources said the final call on Ty der and Sajjan Kumar wW be taken by Congress pres- ident Sonia Gandhi, who is cur- rently campaigning in the South. Tytler couldn't be con- tacted despite repeated attempts. "Congress is a large party and it takes considered deci- sions at appropriate time. Let us see what solutions emerge in the future," Congress spoke- sman Ashwini Kumar said later in the evening. THE MAN WHO THREW THE MISSILE Jarnail Singh, who hurled a shoe at Home Minister P. Chidambaram during a press conference on Tuesday, is a correspondent with the Hindi daily Dainiklagran. His mother Naseeb Kaur said Jarnail is generally mild mannered. Friends and relatives say the journalist, a father of two, is deeply religious They have been charged with, among other things, criminal conspiracy, forgery for the purpose of cheating, fal- sification of accounts and causing disappearance of evi- dence. “Raju, along with his brother and Satyam’s former managing director B. Ramaraju, and its former CFO Vadlamani Srinivas, were the chief operators of this scam,” said Narayana. Narayana detailed the modus operandi. “The accused, through their balance sheets, gave an impression that they were doing extremely well, when they were not,” he said. “This helped in roping in more foreign investment ... and more business partners.” According to him, the accused also “jacked up their profits” to dupe Indian share- holders who rushed to buy company shares sold at inflat- ed prices. “Raju and the other main operators of this scam would periodically offload their promoters’ shares,” he said. “They would forge their bank accounts papers, their bank statements.” Apart from Narayana and his team, CBI director Ashwani Kumar interrogated Raju and the two other “main operators” during their cus- tody with the agency . A spokesperson for PriceWaterhouse, whose two auditors — S. Gopalakrishnan and Talluri Srinivas — were also charge-sheeted, said, “PriceWaterhouse India is surprised and disappointed that the CBI has pressed charges against the two part- ners who worked on the audit of Satyam’s financial state- ments. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has very recently publicly confirmed that Satyam’s former CFO has made it clear to them that nei- ther partner had anything to do with the fraud at Satyam.” The charge-sheet papers, packed in 25 trunks, were brought to the Nampally met- ropolitan court in Hyderabad in a mini van. While the charge- sheet itself is 300 pages long, the annexures run into 65,000 pages — making it the biggest such document in the country . abhishek.sharan@hindustantimes.com