The Allahabad High Court will hear Wednesday a plea towards the acquittal of all 32 accused, together with BJP veterans L Ok Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, within the Babri mosque demolition case.
The petition filed on January 8 by Ayodhya residents Haji Mahmood Ahmad and Syed Akhlaq Ahmad shall be heard by the Lucknow bench of the excessive courtroom.
Their counsel is All India Muslim Personal Law Board government member Zafaryab Jilani, who has additionally been the convener of the Babri Masjid Action Committee.
The petition, difficult the decision of a particular CBI courtroom final 12 months, was on Tuesday listed for listening to earlier than Justice Rakesh Srivastava.
While submitting the petition, Jilani had mentioned the 2 Ayodhya residents moved courtroom as a result of the CBI has not but appealed towards the September 30 judgment. The petitioners have claimed that they’re witnesses within the trial.
The trial choose had refused to just accept newspaper clippings and video clips as proof as a result of the originals weren’t produced in courtroom.
He additionally held that the CBI couldn’t produce any proof that the accused had a gathering of minds with the `kar sevaks’ who demolished the construction.
The petitioners have pleaded that the CBI courtroom dedicated an error in not convicting the accused regardless of the presence of ample proof on document. “The trial judge did not appreciate the evidence of conspiracy in the right perspective”, their petition mentioned.
The petitioners have sought that the document from the trial courtroom be summoned, its judgment put aside and the all of the 32 accused held responsible and punished accordingly.
Former deputy prime minister L Ok Advani, the then Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, former Union ministers Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti and Ram Janmaboomi Teerth Kshetra Trust president Nritya Gopal Das have been amongst these cleared by the decrease courtroom.
The Babri mosque was demolished on December 8, 1992 by a mob of kar sevaks who believed that the sixteenth century construction stood on the birthplace of Lord Ram.
In November 2019, a Supreme Court ruling on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute paved the way in which for the development of the Ram temple on the contested website.
Meanwhile, the CBI courtroom had continued to listen to the separate case associated to the destruction of the mosque.
