The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court hearing the Ayodhya title suits today adjourned hearing on certain untraceable documents to tomorrow.
The bench comprising justice S Rafat Alam, justice Sudhir Agarwal, and justice DV Sharma passed the order related to seven untraceable documents, which have to be produced before the court.
Earlier, the court had directed the state government to produce these documents dating back to 1949, but the government told the court that despite a thorough search five of them could not be traced.
The government also submitted that 23 other related files were missing.
The seven documents relate to different letters and correspondence between the then deputy commissioner of Faizabad and the government of the erstwhile United Provinces in 1949.
On behalf of the government, additional advocate-general JN Mathur, while filing an affidavit, submitted that the government has registered a first information report in this connection and also recommended an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The Sunni Central Board of Wakfs claims that the missing papers are vital for establishing its claim that the Babri Masjid existed at the disputed site in Ayodhya and that the idols of the child Rama were placed at the site on the intervening night of December 22-23, 1949.
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