CHENNAI, India: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board has expressed concern at the Uttar Pradesh government's "delay" in issuing a notification to empower a court in Lucknow to conduct the trial of the case related to the demolition of the Babri mosque.

Speaking at a press meet here, Board President Hasani Nadvi told that the case about the demolition was based on two police FIRs which were under the jurisdiction of two different courts -- one at Rai Bareli and another at Lucknow.

The CBI had filed a common charge-sheet by clubbing both the FIRs and the Allahabad High Court had observed that the state government, in consultation with the court, should issue a notification to confer jurisdiction to one of the courts to try the case.

When Mulayam Singh became the state's Chief Minister, he had said his government would issue a notification giving powers to the Lucknow court to conduct the trial, but no action had been taken so far, Nadvi alleged.

Fourteen years after the demolition, there was no effort to bring the culprits to book and this was a "sad commentary" on the rule of law, he said.