Babri masjid case; Lal Krishna Advani gets statement recorded in CBI court

LUCKNOW: Veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani on Friday got recorded his statement in a special CBI court here in the Babri mosque demolition case through videoconferencing from Delhi. The veteran politician maintained in his statement in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court that the case registered against him was "politically motivated".

The court had on Thursday recorded the statement of another BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi in the case. Joshi had told the court that he was innocent and falsely implicated in the case by the then Congress government at the Centre. The BJP leader had also called the prosecution witnesses in the case as "liars".

"The entire investigation was conducted under the political influence and I was charged on the basis of false and fabricated evidence," Joshi had told the court. The court is recording the statements of as many as 32 accused in the case after examination of the prosecution witnesses. (IANS)

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