Don’t challenge my character, says Liberhan

Furious at the “leak” of his report on the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, justice (retd) Manmohan Singh Liberhan confronted mediapersons at his home in Chandigarh on Monday afternoon. 

“I will not speak about the report. If the report is with the media, then go and find out from where the media got it and who provided the report,” he told reporters at
his home.

When it was pointed out that the opposition had been alleging that the report was “selectively leaked” and asked whether it was leaked from “his side”, Liberhan said, “Let the opposition say anything… What do you mean by this? Don’t challenge my character... get lost.”

“I am not that characterless a person to hand over the report to the media before it’s placed in parliament,” Liberhan said.

The former chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh high court said he had done his job diligently and had nothing to comment on.

“I’m not a person who is accessible to you (media)... I don’t want to talk about it,” he said and slammed the door. He also did not receive any phone calls all through the day.
(With agency inputs)