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India to file charge sheet against 68 people in Babri Mosque case



* CBI to investigate conspiracy angle unveiled by Librahan commission’s report tabled in parliament last year



By Iftikhar Gilani



NEW DELHI: The Indian Home Ministry is understood to have decided to a file charge sheet against all 68 persons named in a judicial commission report for their involvement in the Babri Mosque demolition case on December 6, 1992.



While eight persons among them – including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stalwarts Lal Krishna Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Kalyan Singh and Vinay Katiyar – have already been made accused in the case, sources said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) would file a supplementary charge sheet against the remaining 60 people.



Probe:

They said the CBI would also investigate the conspiracy angle to the demolition case that was unveiled in the judicial Liberhan Commission's report tabled in parliament last year. The most important thing would be its probe into the financial transactions of the member organisations of the ultra-Hindu nationalist groups accused by the commission.



Sources said the CBI probe would also look into the role of the 18 people who operated bank accounts associated with the construction work of the Ram Mandir at the disputed Ayodhya site.



The CBI was given specific instructions by Home Minister P Chidambaram on December 16 last year to examine the Liberhan Commission's report and explore the possibility of filing cases against those named in the report for their direct or indirect involvement in Babri Mosque’s demolition.



Sources said Chidambaram also asked the CBI to expedite the trials of all three pending demolition cases to bring the culprits to justice. Cases that have still not been decided after 18 years since the mosque’s demolition is a reflection of the poor functioning of the CBI, the home minister has remarked.