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New Delhi, June 30: The Liberhan Commission on Tuesday submitted its report to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, bringing to an end 17 years of investigation into the 1992 demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
Retd Justice M S Liberhan, who headed the Commission that got 48 extensions, submitted the report to the Prime Minister in the presence of Home Minister P Chidambaram.
The contents of the report were not immediately known.
However Justice Liberhan, while speaking to reporters, said he would comment on the findings only after the report was tabled in the Parliament. He added that the submission of the report took so many years because of the delay caused in procuring of witnesses.
Set up within 10 days of the demolition of the historic mosque on December 6, 1992, which triggered widespread communal violence leading to heavy loss of lives, the panel has become the country's longest serving Commission of Enquiry.
The Commission, mandated to inquire into the circumstances leading to the demolition of the Babri mosque, was to submit its report by March 16, 1993 but sought repeated extensions to complete its probe. The last three-month extension was given in March this year.
The probe panel was one of the costliest Commissions having spent nearly Rs 8 crore. The bulk of the amount was spent on the salaries and perks of the supporting staff. During the extended proceedings spread over 400 sittings, the Commission recorded the statements of senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Kalyan Singh.
The panel had completed hearing the last witness in 2005.
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