By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Entrusted last month with the task to trace the crucial missing files related to the Babri Masjid title suit, India’s federal probe agency CBI yesterday filed an interim report with the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, giving details about the files it could trace so far.
The agency told the Bench which is looking into the title suit of the Babri Masjid that was demolished on December 6. 1992 by the Hindutva fanatics, that it traced10 of the 23 missing files and will be able to trace the rest within the stipulated time of September 21. The court had asked the agency to submit its interim report by August 25.
Additional Solicitor General of the Government of India Ashok Nigam filed the sealed report before the special bench comprising Justices Syed Rafat Alam, Sudhir Agarwal and D V Sharma. Nigam told the court that the CBI has got information about 10 missing files: it has recovered 7 of them while three has been destroyed by the state government. The agency presented photo copy of one of these three files.
The state government and the court asked the agency to look into the missing files on July 15. TCN was the first Muslim media to break the news about the Babri Masjid missing files, which later snowballed into a big issue forcing the government to order a CBI enquiry.