Guess who's on the possible list of criminals Pakistan wants India to hand over? Lal Krishna Advani. The home minister is wanted for conspiring to assassinate Mohammad Ali Jinnah in 1947, according to a report an English daily, The News, carried today. Officials in the foreign office in Islamabad refused to comment till they had verified the story. But in Karachi, some court officials said they have found a 'dormant' file which names Advani and others as absconders. The case is based on an FIR (number 4/47) registered on September 10, 1947, by the then station house officer at Jamshed Quarters, Inspector Tooti Ram. The 18 accused were charged with hatching a criminal conspiracy to assassinate then governor-general Qaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, Khawaja Nazimuddin and other top-line leaders of the Pakistan movement. Six of them were arrested while the remaining 12, including Advani and some leaders of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), absconded. The arrested - Khem Chand s/o Gopal Das, Nand Ram s/o Gobind Ram, Gobind s/o Lal Singh, Hargobind s/o Ghando Mal, Santo s/o Ghando Mal and Tayken Das s/o Jairam - were tried and convicted. They were awarded different penalties by the court. The case against the 12 absconding accused was placed in the dormant file pending their arrest. Later, New Delhi and Islamabad reached an agreement under which the six convicts were extradited to India on September 19, 1948. But the case against Advani and the absconding VHP leaders is still pending and the Pakistan government can demand their handover. This is not the only case against the home minister, who is also an accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case in India. The BJP dismissed the News report as 'concocted and mischievous' but did not dispute that Advani was in Pakistan when the case was filed. Party spokesman Sunil Shastri said: 'There is no truth in it. It is a concocted story which cannot be believed at all.' But party colleague J.P. Mathur, who is a close associate of Advani over several decades, said false cases were foisted on RSS activists in Pakistan during the Partition, and this could be one of them. Mathur added that the timing of the charge was 'completely motivated'. 'It is clear they (Pakistan) will not hand over Dawood Ibrahim,' he said. Advani was living at Hyderabad in Sind at the time of Partition and was an active worker of the RSS, which he had joined in 1942 at 15. A book on the BJP-RSS, Hindu Nationalists in India, by Yogendra Malik and V.B. Singh, says Advani was born in 1927 into a Hyderabad-based business family and was educated at St Patrick's School in Karachi. The book says Advani and his family migrated to India a few months after Pakistan was formed in August 1947, a claim supported by a close associate of the home minister in the BJP.