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`Infiltrators may have had a hand in Babri demolition'

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JUNE 29. Giving a new dimension to the Babri Masjid demolition controversy, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Kalyan Singh, today told the Liberhan Commission, probing the sequence of events leading to the demolition, that Pakistani infiltrators might have had a hand in the pulling down of the disputed structure in Ayodhya.

Senior counsel B.B. Saksena appearing for Mr. Kalyan Singh before the Commission cited a statement made by the then Union Minister, Arjun Singh, and said that from the information received by the Centre at that time some Pakistani infiltrators had made their way to Ayodhya to bring down the structure. However, nothing more was known regarding the same, he said and alleged that the Congress too might have been involved in the demolition as it wanted to bring about the downfall of the Kalyan Singh Government.

He said the Congress was to gain more from the demolition than the Bharatiya Janata Party, as following the incident, its Government at the Centre found a pretext to sack the BJP Government in the State. There was also a greater possibility of Pakistan behind the conspiracy.

The newly-appointed counsel for the Centre, P.P. Malhotra, today filed a written application before the Commission seeking four weeks' time to file additional documents.

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