The demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992 was a cataclysmic event in the history of independent India. Seventeen years later, the blame game is still on, and the report of MS Liberhan Commission has stoked embers of the debate about the dramatis personae behind that frenzied afternoon. DNA puts together a selection of images that continues to haunt the nation’s political and moral consciousness.

Kar sevaks trying to bring down the domes of Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. The Liberhan Commission, probing the incident, submitted its findings to the Centre in June, 2009