Liberhans Commission set up in December 1992 after the demolition of the Babari Masjid, little is known about its current status. ... Narasimha Rao Government had appointed a sitting judge to head the Commission. The sitting judge is now the Chief Justice of Madras High Court. The Commission was further hampered by other logistic problem with the judge from Chandigarh, the commission's headquarters (first in Lucknow, then) in Delhi and most its witnesses from Uttar Pradesh. The Rao Government tried to dissolve it in January 1994 before the Commission even got off the ground.

By the time it began to work, it faced delaying tactics from the Sangh Parivar. Between August 1995 and July 1996, the Commission's work was stalled when Delhi High Court issued stay order on notices issued by the Commission against 41 persons and five organisations. Their stay was lifted on July 23, 1996 ... Since then we know nothing about the course of the inquiry.

Nearly five years have passed since the country was brought to the brink of civil war, and 15 months since the United Front came to power on the ostensible plank of secularism and one of the principal accused re-occupies the seat of Government in Lucknow.

Considering that the demolition was as big a criminal act as the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, by the very same forces of hatred and violence, what has become of (the inquiry).