Lucknow, January 22: The Allahabad High Court today fixed February one for further hearing on the matter relating to seven missing documents linked to the Ayodhya title suits.
The Lucknow Bench of the Court passed the order following an assurance given by Uttar Pradesh advocate general Jyotindra Mishra that the probe into the missing documents would be completed by January 31.
CBI counsel Bireshwarnath also told the Special Bench that the agency had prepared a list of 51 officials and it proposed to examine them in connection with the missing documents.
Their examination would be completed by January 31, the CBI counsel told the Bench comprising Justice Sibghat Ullah Khan, Justice Sudhir Agrawal and Justice Dharam Veer Sharma.
In compliance with an earlier order of the Court, the Uttar Pradesh government today filed an affidavit relating to the probe into the missing documents. The affidavit, filed by the principal secretary (home), accused two officials of acting negligently and said show cause notices had been issued to them.
The missing documents include correspondence between the UP government and the Faizabad District Magistrate in 1949, and a message of the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the state for removal of idols from the Babri mosque.
—Agencies