New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday indicated that senior BJP leader LK Advani and other BJP and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders may face trial in the Babri Masjid demolition case.
The Allahabad High Court had earlier dropped the conspiracy charges against these leaders including senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and Kalyan Singh. But now SC was hearing a petition by CBI challenging Allahabad High Court’s order of acquittal and a petition by Mehboob Ahmad.
The observation came from the bench of Justices PC Ghosh and RS Nariman just ahead of the last phase of the assembly elections in the state where the court also advised CBI to club the two cases pending in Rae Bareli and Lucknow.
Previously, a court in Rae Bareli had released Advani and 12 others including Vinay Katiyar and Kalyan Singh of conspiracy charges for razing the 16th century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in December 1992.
This demolition is one of the biggest events in post-Independence India which has every now and then given rise to communal tensions across the country claiming hundreds of lives. RRS and affiliated organisations have been pushing for the construction of Ram Temple at the site of the mosque.
During the last hearing, SC had sought responses from all the accused.
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