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| Ayodhya demolition case: SC reserves verdict | | | NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its judgement on the petition seeking review of its ruling allowing trial of cases related to Ayodhya demolition before two separate courts at Rai Bareli and Lucknow.
The petition to re-examine the apex court verdict of November 2002 was filed by Mohd Aslam alias Bhure, who had also approached the court before the demolition of the disputed structure.
After questioning the locus stand of the petitioner for approaching the court, a Bench of Justice KG Balakrishnan, Justice G P Mathur and Justice RV Raveenderan reserved its verdict on the petition seeking review of the judgement upholding the UP Government's stand to conduct the trial at Rai Bareli and Lucknow.
In the matter which was heard at length after almost a year, CBI and the petitioner submitted that the trial of the two set of cases be conducted together at Lucknow as a consolidated chargesheet was filed.
Two cases were registered in connection with demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
In the first FIR, after investigation, 39 people were named as accused, the trial of which is being held in a Lucknow court while the second FIR had the names of eight VVIPs as accused, including senior BJP leaders LK Advani, MM Joshi and Vinay Katiyar, expelled BJP leader Uma Bharati, VHP leaders Ashok Singhal and Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and Sadhavi Ritambhara.
The Rai Bareli court had in September, 2003 quashed the charges against Advani while deciding to proceed against the other seven persons. |
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