'Bomb did not cause mosque demolition'

LUCKNOW, DEC. 10. A former police official, who was Senior Superintendent of Police, Faizabad district, on the day of demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992, today denied that a bomb blast brought down the structure.

``There was no bomb blast which caused the demolition of the Babri Masjid,'' the official, Mr. D.B.Rai, told presspersons here.

``Such a story, as being put forward by the RSS chief Mr. K. Sudarshan, after eight years, is totally unfounded and baseless,'' he said.

``I, as district police chief, did not get any information pertaining to any blast,'' said Mr. Rai, who is one among the 49 chargesheeted in the case.

Mr. Sudarshan's statement that an explosion brought the shrine down ``has only been concocted and fabricated to save some senior leaders chargesheeted by the CBI,'' he said.

Mr. Rai had resigned from the IPS after the incident to join the BJP on whose ticket he got elected to the last Lok Sabha from Sultanpur. He, however, stated that fire crackers were burst by kar sevaks after the demolition.

- PTI

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