Advani is Justice Liberhan's Achilles heel: Ex-counsel

NEW DELHI: Anupam Gupta, Counsel for the Commission of Inquiry that went into the Babri Masjid demolition, has said that BJP leader L K Advani is "Achilles heel" of Justice M S Liberhan and "inputs" suggest that the former Deputy Prime Minister does not not seem to be among those "individually indicted".

It was apparent that he (Justice Liberhan) wanted to "extricate" Advani from the imbroglio of the demolition, Gupta said in an interview to a magazine.

Gupta, who dissociated himself from the Commission more than two years ago following differences with Justice M S Liberhan on his approach to Advani, told the magazine that "based on my decade-long association with Justice Liberhan, I am convinced that Advani is his Achilles heel.

"This, I would vouch for, regardless of what the report might actually say about Advani."

He said the real test of Justice Liberhan's report would be his analysis of L K Advani's role and responsibility in the demolition of the Babri Masjid.

"Initial media reports and other inputs suggest that while other leading lights of the Sangh parivar have been individually indicted, Advani does not not seem to be among them," he said.