According to the report, the events of December 6, 1992, in Ayodhya were "neither spontaneous nor unplanned".
The legal battle over the 80 feet by 40 feet land far predates the VHP movement to construct the Ram temple.
The first case was filed in January 1885 by Mahant Raghubir Das seeking permission to construct a temple on the chabutara (a raised platform) outside the Babri Masjid was dismissed.
In the next 12 years, four title suits followed (all still pending before the courts).
These include the one filed in December 1950 by Mahant Ramchandra Das Paramhans, who is now the chairman of the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas and another by the Sunni Central Boards of Waqfs, UP, in December 1961.
All the four suits were clubbed together and brought before the Allahabad High Court, which began recording oral evidence in July 1996.
The case has always moved at a snail's pace. Out of the 100 witnesses, only 23 have testified.
