Liberhan Commission report tabled in LS along with ATR

New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) The Liberhan Commission Report on
Babri Masjid demolition and Action Taken Report on it, was
Tuesday tabled in Lok Sabha (Lower House of Indian
Parliament).
The English version of the report was tabled by Indian
Home Minister P Chidambaram during Zero Hour a day after the
leakage of the findings set off a political storm.
The decision to table the report of the Commission was
taken at a meeting of the Indian Cabinet chaired by Indian
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the absence of Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is away in the United
States.
The Commission, headed by Justice M S Liberhan, probed the
Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 and submitted its findings to
the government on June 30 this year after an inquiry spanning
nearly 17 years.
Publication of excerpts of the report had sparked a
furore with the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
accusing the government of "selectively leaking" the report
which is believed to have indicted top BJP leaders L K Advani,
Murli Manohar Joshi and other functionaries for the demolition
of the structure.
Congress party had hit back saying the whole nation knows
that the BJP had shed "crocodile tears" after its senior
functionaries had watched people causing destruction and
mayhem. PTI ARC
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