There are two charts in the following section that bring out the discrepancies in the accounts of the two witnesses. These discrepancies, besides many other factors which emerged later, led Prime Minister Morarji Desai, on September 3, 1978, to declare: "There are reasonable doubts on the correctness in the two reports. Various important contradictions in the testimony of the witnesses have been noticed.

In the light of those doubts and contradictions and those records, Government finds it difficult to accept that the earlier conclusions are decisive."