Babri Masjid Ruling

Archaeologist K K Muhammed, who claims to have first witnessed the remains of a Ram temple under the Babri masjid in Ayodhya, has alleged that the ASI became "a wholly-paralysed body" after 2014.

A top priest in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya has told NDTV that focus on Mathura - believed to be the birthplace of Lord Krishna - coinciding with the December 6 anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid is part of the ruling BJP's 'politics".

Two Ayodhya residents on Friday moved the Allahabad High Court challenging a special CBI court's ruling that acquitted all 32 accused including BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque.

All 32 accused in Ayodhya's Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992 were acquitted today as an Uttar Pradesh court ruled the demolition was not planned and involved "anti-social elements". BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti were all acquitted of conspiracy charges in a landmark verdict today that has evoked strong reactio...

The verdict in the 28-year-old case involving the demolition of Babri Masjid, which stood at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, will be pronounced today by a special court in Lucknow. The 1992 demolition -- preceded by a series of rath yatras by the BJP's LK Advani -- had cost around 3,000 lives and changed the country's political landscape. The ...

Hours after the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board counsel claimed that it will seek a review of the Ayodhya verdict in light of its "contradictions", the chief of the Islamic statutory body on Saturday clarified that it has no such move in mind.

Days ahead of the Ayodhya verdict, senior RSS and BJP leaders reached out to prominent Muslim clerics and intellectuals and held a meeting with them in Delhi on Tuesday during which it was stressed that irrespective of the nature of the top court's ruling there should neither be 'junooni jashn' (excessive celeberation) nor 'haar ka hungama' (brouha...

Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Badal, a key ally of the ruling BJP, made controversial comments on the Babri mosque razing and the 1984 Operation Bluestar.

In a 60-second hearing today, the Supreme Court deferred the Ayodhya temple-mosque case and said a bench would decide on January 10 when to take up the case. The decision on the title suit, pending for six decades and at the heart of India's most politically divisive row, comes amid demands to speed up the plan to build a Ram temple at the site whe...

The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute will be taken up not now but in January, the Supreme Court said in a four-minute hearing today that could mean greater pressure on the ruling BJP from its hardline Hindu affiliates, ahead of the 2019 national polls, for an ordinance or special order to facilitate a Ram temple at the site.

A Supreme Court decision on Thursday has ensured that the case of whether or not to build a Ram temple at the site of a razed mosque in Ayodhya will be heard from October 29. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra refused to revisit a 1994 ruling that the government can acquire land that a mosque is built on - a decision that...

The Supreme Court has refused to revisit its 1994 ruling that the government can acquire land that a mosque is built on. In the Ismail Farooqui judgement,  the court had ruled then that namaz or prayers can be offered anywhere and a mosque is not essential. The ruling will not be referred to a larger bench, the three-judge Bench headed by Chief J...

Islam will collapse if prayer in mosque is not recognised as an integral part of the religion, the Supreme Court, which has resumed hearing the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute case, was told today. Rajiv Dhavan, who is representing one of the original litigants in this case from the Muslim side, said the top court's 1994 verdict had completely...

The final hearing over the disputed Ayodhya site, claimed by Hindus and Muslims, will begin on February 8 next year by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court. The decision came out a day ahead of the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the 16th-century Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 that was followed by communal riots in which around 2,000 pe...

Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Union Minister Uma Bharti and Murli Manohar Joshi faced a court in Lucknow today in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case and were charged with criminal conspiracy. They had argued that they had no role in the mosque razing and had tried to stop it, but their discharge petition was rejected. The special CBI court, aske...

Archaeologist K K Muhammed, who claims to have first witnessed the remains of a Ram temple under the Babri masjid in Ayodhya, has alleged that the ASI became "a wholly-paralysed body" after 2014.

A top priest in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya has told NDTV that focus on Mathura - believed to be the birthplace of Lord Krishna - coinciding with the December 6 anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid is part of the ruling BJP's 'politics".

Two Ayodhya residents on Friday moved the Allahabad High Court challenging a special CBI court's ruling that acquitted all 32 accused including BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque.

All 32 accused in Ayodhya's Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992 were acquitted today as an Uttar Pradesh court ruled the demolition was not planned and involved "anti-social elements". BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti were all acquitted of conspiracy charges in a landmark verdict today that has evoked strong reactio...

The verdict in the 28-year-old case involving the demolition of Babri Masjid, which stood at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, will be pronounced today by a special court in Lucknow. The 1992 demolition -- preceded by a series of rath yatras by the BJP's LK Advani -- had cost around 3,000 lives and changed the country's political landscape. The ...

Hours after the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board counsel claimed that it will seek a review of the Ayodhya verdict in light of its "contradictions", the chief of the Islamic statutory body on Saturday clarified that it has no such move in mind.

Days ahead of the Ayodhya verdict, senior RSS and BJP leaders reached out to prominent Muslim clerics and intellectuals and held a meeting with them in Delhi on Tuesday during which it was stressed that irrespective of the nature of the top court's ruling there should neither be 'junooni jashn' (excessive celeberation) nor 'haar ka hungama' (brouha...

Akali Dal leader Sukhbir Badal, a key ally of the ruling BJP, made controversial comments on the Babri mosque razing and the 1984 Operation Bluestar.

In a 60-second hearing today, the Supreme Court deferred the Ayodhya temple-mosque case and said a bench would decide on January 10 when to take up the case. The decision on the title suit, pending for six decades and at the heart of India's most politically divisive row, comes amid demands to speed up the plan to build a Ram temple at the site whe...

The Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute will be taken up not now but in January, the Supreme Court said in a four-minute hearing today that could mean greater pressure on the ruling BJP from its hardline Hindu affiliates, ahead of the 2019 national polls, for an ordinance or special order to facilitate a Ram temple at the site.

A Supreme Court decision on Thursday has ensured that the case of whether or not to build a Ram temple at the site of a razed mosque in Ayodhya will be heard from October 29. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra refused to revisit a 1994 ruling that the government can acquire land that a mosque is built on - a decision that...

The Supreme Court has refused to revisit its 1994 ruling that the government can acquire land that a mosque is built on. In the Ismail Farooqui judgement,  the court had ruled then that namaz or prayers can be offered anywhere and a mosque is not essential. The ruling will not be referred to a larger bench, the three-judge Bench headed by Chief J...

Islam will collapse if prayer in mosque is not recognised as an integral part of the religion, the Supreme Court, which has resumed hearing the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute case, was told today. Rajiv Dhavan, who is representing one of the original litigants in this case from the Muslim side, said the top court's 1994 verdict had completely...

The final hearing over the disputed Ayodhya site, claimed by Hindus and Muslims, will begin on February 8 next year by a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court. The decision came out a day ahead of the 25th anniversary of the demolition of the 16th-century Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 that was followed by communal riots in which around 2,000 pe...

Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Union Minister Uma Bharti and Murli Manohar Joshi faced a court in Lucknow today in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case and were charged with criminal conspiracy. They had argued that they had no role in the mosque razing and had tried to stop it, but their discharge petition was rejected. The special CBI court, aske...