Babri Mosque Verdict — Detailed Judgement by Indian Supreme Court
India’s Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favor of a Hindu group in a long-running legal battle over a centuries-old religious site Babri mosque in Ayodhya, also claimed by Muslims. The ruling paves the way for the establishment of a Hindu temple at the site in the northern town of Ayodhya, a proposal long supported by the ruling Hindu party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The five-judge panel headed by Ranjan Gogoi unanimously h anded over the 2.77-acre plot of Babri mosque to one of the Hindu groups it was claiming. The judge said a temple should be built on the disputed l and by establishing a fund at the disposal of the central government.
For more than seven decades, right-wing Hindus have sought to build a temple on the site, which they believe is the cradle of Lord Ram, the incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. They say the site has been sacred to Hindus for far longer than the Babri Mosque, built by the Mughal Muslims there in 1528.
A Hindu crowd demolished the mosque in 1992, sparking riots in which about 2,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed and a series of legal battles between several groups claiming its right to the site of Babri mosque.
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