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            New Delhi: 
            Bureaucrats and police officers in Uttar Pradesh remained “deaf, 
            dumb and blind” in the run up to the demolition of the Babri Masjid, 
            the Liberhan Commission has said in its report. 
            “They could have at least attempted to stem the tide of communalism 
            and the rape of democracy. But they chose to remain deaf, dumb and 
            blind throughout and instead became a willing part of the cartel,” 
            Justice M.S. Liberhan has said in his voluminous 1,000-page report 
            on the demolition.
   
            “The 
            police and the bureaucrats of the state not just turned a blind eye 
            to the misadventures of the polity but actively connived and curried 
            favour with the chief minister and the Sangh Parivar by 
            systematically paralysing the state machinery. Their sins are 
            highlighted by their being rewarded with plum postings after the 
            demolition as well as tickets for contesting elections,” the report 
            said.   
            The 
            one-man panel that has held several bureaucrats individually 
            culpable for the demolition and for promoting communal discord said 
            “the police and the administration were the executors of the designs 
            of the RSS, VHP, BJP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena etc”.   
            In 
            the conclusion chapter of the report, Liberhan has said that the 
            “decay and erosion in the values of the civil service were all too 
            apparent in Uttar Pradesh in the years leading up to 1992″.   
            “I 
            have no hesitation in holding that they became a part and parcel of 
            the political parties governing at a particular point of time…” 
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
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