Law Minister assures action on Liberhan recommendation

Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily said follow-up action would be taken on the recommendations given by the Liberhan Commission report on the Babri Masjid demolition tabled in Parliament and absolved the Home Ministry of any blame for the leak of the report in the media. 



‘It will be a national priority to act upon the recommendations. It was not a question of one mosque. The incident had shaken the entire country’s secular edifice. 



The country needs justice,’ he told reporters after the 900-page report was tabled in Parliament by Union Home Minister P Chidambaram. 



On the leak of the report, Mr Moily said neither the Home Minister nor the Home Ministry had anything to do with it. 



He said the report had indicted 68 persons for the demolition of the centuries-old mosque. 



‘Many a time we go by recommendations by them or sometime go beyond that too. We have noted all the recommendations. It was now for the respective Ministries to act upon them,’ he said. 



Asked if the leak in the media had put the Government on the backfoot, the Law Minister said the Government was rather on the ‘front foot’, with the tabling of the report. 



Justice Liberhan Commission, a fact-finding mission had been constituted on December 16, 1992, ten days after the mosque was razed by kar sevaks. 



It took 17 years and 48 extensions for the Commission to submit its findings to the Government on June 30 this year.