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Babri action committee seeks swift action

Atiq Khan

LUCKNOW: The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) has welcomed the submission of the Liberhan Commission report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh despite the “inordinate delay.” It, however, wants the government to quickly act on the report and make it public.

“Table report”

Legal convener of the Babri Committee, Zafaryab Jilani, said here on Tuesday that the report should be tabled in Parliament in July first week and the action taken report (ATR) submitted in the House within three months.

Mr. Jilani told The Hindu that the report could enable the Central Bureau of Investigation to frame charges against those officers, whose name did not figure in the CBI charge sheet against 49 persons, who allegedly played a role in the demolition of the masjid. The CBI charge sheet was submitted in the court in 1993.

Evidence of two top officials of the Uttar Pradesh government during the reign of the former Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Minister, Kalyan Singh, when the masjid was demolished was reportedly recorded by the Commission, but their names did not figure in the CBI charge sheet, Mr. Jilani said.

“It depends on the will of the Central government whether it wants to act on the report or suppress it,” Mr. Jilani added.

Mohammad Hashim Ansari, the only surviving plaintiff in the original title suit (Regular suit number 2 of 1950) related to the Ram Janmabhoomi/Babri Masjid controversy, also demanded prompt action on the report by the Manmohan Singh government.

The 89-year-old Ansari has seen it all — from the legal dispute over the ownership of the Ayodhya complex to the politics involved in the demolition. He said from Faizabad that the ball was now in the Centre’s court.

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