Anupam Gupta, counsel for the commission that was set up soon after the mosque was demolished in 1992, told NDTV channel that Vajpayee was the only BJP leader who was not connected to the mosque razing and what came to be known as the Ayodhya movement.

"Of all the top ranking leaders of the Sangh Parivar who were summoned and examined? Vajpayee was not one of them," he said.

"A conscious decision was taken (that) since there is nothing to connect Vajpayee with the demolition proper or with the entire Ayodhya movement, whose culmination the demolition was, the Commission should not call Vajpayee," he said.

In such circumstances, Gupta said, he was "astonished" that Vajpayee had been named in the leaked portions of the report published in the Indian Express as one of those "indicted" for the mosque razing.

Gupta said this "central fact must be placed before the nation today now that a national newspaper has disclosed certain parts of the report".

Rajya Sabha adjourned over report

The leak of the report of the Liberhan Commission that probed the 1992 Babri mosque razing led to uproar in the Rajya Sabha Monday, leading to adjournment till noon.

Soon after Rajya Sabha convened, opposition leader Arun Jaitley of the Bharatiya Janata Party demanded a probe into the leak while other MPs from his party wanted the report tabled in the house.

Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office Prithviraj Chauhan said Home Minister P. Chidambaram would come to the Rajya Sabha at noon to answer queries over the leak.

Hearing this, Vice President Mohammed Hamid Ansari, who was in the chair, fixed the discussion for noon. But this did not satisfy the opposition MPs who continued to raise slogans, forcing Ansari to adjourn the house.

A report in the Indian Express Monday said the commission has indicted former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as well as Bharatiya Janata Party leaders L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi for their role in the demolition.