September
19,
2003
The
Polit
Bureau
of
the
Communist
Party
of
India
(Marxist)
has
issued
the
following
statement:
The
decision
of
the
Rae
Bareilly
court
to
discharge
L.K.
Advani
as
an
accused
from
the
Babri
Masjid
demolition
case
confirms
the
worst
apprehensions
about
the
scuttling
of
the
case
by
the
CBI.
The
CBI
filed
a
diluted
charge
sheet
against
the
eight
accused
before
the
court
by
dropping
charge
of
criminal
conspiracy
under
section
120
(b)
of
the
IPC.
Further,
the
CBI
stated
that
it
had
no
audio-visual
evidence
to
present
against
the
chief
accused
in
the
case.
It
may
be
recalled
that
49
BJP
and
VHP
leaders
including
L.K.
Advani
had
been
charge-sheeted
by
a
designated
court
in
Lucknow
on
September
9,
1997
on
a
charge
sheet
filed
by
the
CBI.
The
order
by
the
additional
sessions
judge
stated
"From
our
description
it
is
concluded,
that
in
the
present
case,
a
criminal
conspiracy
to
demolish
the
disputed
structure
of
Ram
Janam
Bhoomi/Babri
Masjid
was
hatched
by
the
accused
persons
in
the
beginning
of
1990
and
was
completed
on
6.12.92.
Shri
Lal
Krishan
Advani
and
others
hatched
criminal
conspiracies
to
demolish
the
disputed
premises
on
different
times
at
different
places."
It
is
on
the
basis
of
finding
a
prima
facie
case
that
charges
were
framed
against
L.K.
Advani,
Murli
Mahohar
Joshi,
Uma
Bharati
and
others.
This
charge
sheet
was
challenged
in
the
High
Court
and
it
was
struck
down
on
purely
technical
ground
on
a
lapse
on
the
part
of
the
state
government.
The
Rajnath
Singh
government
refused
to
make
the
necessary
corrections
and
issue
a
fresh
notification.
Subsequently,
after
the
matter
was
taken
to
the
Supreme
Court,
the
Mayawati
government
issued
a
fresh
notification
but
the
government
which
was
dependent
on
the
BJP
referred
the
case
to
the
Rae
Bareilly
court
abinitio
(to
begin
afresh).
It
is
in
this
background
that
the
Rae
Bareilly
court
has
now
on
the
basis
of
a
diluted
charge
sheet
and
a
CBI
which
refused
to
stand
by
its
own
original
charges,
discharged
L.K.
Advani.
This
is
not
the
court
which
has
acquitted
L.K.
Advani,
but
the
CBI.
It
would
be
a
grave
miscarriage
of
justice
if
those
responsible
for
the
demolition
of
the
Babri
Masjid
are
not
made
to
answer
to
the
charge
before
a
court
of
law.
The
CBI
will
have
to
take
necessary
steps
to
prevent
this
happening.
L.K.
Advani
will
have
to
face
the
charges
leveled
against
him
by
the
original
CBI
charge
sheet
admitted
in
1997
if
the
rule
of
law
has
to
prevail.