Author: PTI
Publication: The Hindu
Date: May 27, 2003
Asserting that the disputed site
in Ayodhya was the birthplace of Lord Ram, the Centre today told the Liberhan
Commission that continued effort by Hindus to liberate it either by way
of struggle or negotiations and litigations have been on even during the
existence of the mosque there.
"The existence of Ram Chabutra and
Kaushaliya Rasoi on the outer court of the disputed structure where the
worshiping has been going on since long admittedly indicates conclusively
that this place cannot be the birth place of any person other that of Lord
Ram," Centre's counsel Lala Ram Gupta told the Commission, probing the
demolition of disputed structure at Ayodhya on December 6,1992.
Referring to the revenue records
and some surveys and accounts of historians, both Indian and foreign, he
said earlier record clearly indicate an undisputed fact that the site in
question where the Babri Masjid stood was a Janamsthan and later it was
called Masjid Janamsthan.
That is why the whole structure
assumed the name Ram-Janambhoomi- Babri Masjid complex, he claimed.
Continuing its final arguments,
the Centre maintained the sequence of events on the dispute dates back
to 1528 when Mir Baqi, the commander of Mughal Emperor Babar built the
Mosque after invading India.
Since then there has been relentless
struggle by the Hindus to regain the possession of the place, Gupta said.
