  In their comment, Murphy et al. (arxiv:0708.3677) criticize the fitting
procedure we used in two previous papers [Srianand et al. 2004(Paper I) and
Chand et al. 2004 (Paper II)] and conclude that the above papers offers no
stringent test to previous evidence for varying fine structure constant. We
think this is a hasty conclusion as (a) our procedure is robust as shown in
Paper II; (b) the data used by Murphy et al., in particular the error array,
are different from ours and there are differences in the fitting procedure; (c)
despite these differences, 70 per cent of their individual measurements are
consistent with that quoted in Paper II. Our reanalysis using VPFIT with
identical initial guess parameters leads to \Delta\alpha/\alpha =
(0.01+/-0.15)x 10^{-5}$ for 21 systems (excluding two systems that deviate at
more than 3$\sigma$ level) with very little scatter (\chi^2_\nu ~1).
