Babri Masjid

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The Allahabad High Court has quashed a detention order passed by the District Magistrate, Lakhimpur Kheri under the National Security Act, 1980 against a man for his alleged post on social media on Babri Masjid.

Shortly after a special CBI court acquitted all the surviving 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case last week, several journalists and academicians reminded me of an essay I had written for India Legal magazine in December 2017 which possibly has more relevance today than the time it was written

A special CBI court today acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP veterans LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, of criminal conspiracy charges almost 28 years after the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya.

CBI Special Judge Surendra Kumar Yadav today set September 30 as the date of verdict in the long drawn, contentious Babri Masjid demolition case. This case is about criminal conspiracy.

Attorney General K. K. Venugopal has declined consent to initiate contempt proceeding against actress Swara Bhaskar for her comments against the Supreme Court on social media.

The consecration of the Temple has ended a prolonged legal battle where faith was pitted against law, Hinduism against Islam and religious convictions against rationality. Retracing the century-old legal battle shows how the highly contentious and controversial issue finally arrived at a lawful conclusion

During his deposition yesterday (July 13) before CBI Special Judge SK Yadav, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh denied the allegations leveled against him and, in his defence, asked if there was any evidence to back these allegations.

Senior BJP leader Kalyan Singh on Monday (July 13) appeared before the special CBI court in connection with the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case.

The Supreme Court has or...