New Delhi: Asserting that the disputed site in Ayodhya was the birth place of Lord Rama, the Centre on May 26 told the Liberhann Commission that continued effort by Hindus to liberate it either by way of struggle or negotiations and litigations have been on even during the existence of the mosque there.

"The existence of Ram Chabutra and Kaushaliya Rasoi on the outer court of the disputed structure where the worshiping has been going on since long admittedly indicates conclusively that this place cannot be the birth place of any person other that that of Lord Rama," Centre's counsel Lala Ram Gupta told the Commission, probing the demolition of disputed structure at Ayodhya on December 6,1992.

Referring to the revenue records and some surveys and accounts of historians, both Indian and foreign, he said earlier record clearly indicate an undisputed fact that the site in question where the Babri Masjid stood was a Janmasthan and later it was called Masjid Janmasthan.

That is why the whole structure assumed the name Ram-Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid complex, he claimed.

Continuing its final arguments, the Centre maintained the sequence of events on the dispute dates back to 1528 AD when Mir Baqi, the commander of Mughal emperor Babar built the mosque after invading India. Since then there has been relentless struggle by the Hindus to regain the possession of the place, Gupta said.

He said Centre's February 1993 white paper on Ayodhya establishes that the dispute on the structure had led to the communal riots in 1934 between Hindus and Muslims causing large-scale damage to it which was repaired by the British government and cost of repair was recovered by imposing punitive tax on the Hindus.

PTI