Shashwati Chowdhury
Published on: July 20 2022 at 18:27 IST
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court stated on Monday that the revision petition filed against the acquittals of all 32 accused people, including former deputy prime minister LK Advani, the then-chief minister of the state of Uttar Pradesh, Kalyan Singh, senior BJP figures MM Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiar, SadhviRitambhara, and BrijBhushanSharan Singh,was not maintainable.
The next hearing date has been set by the court for August 1.
A Bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh issued the directive. The matter was earlier scheduled for July 11, 2022, but the revisionists’ attorneys sought an adjournment.
Haji Mahmood Ahmad and Syed Akhlaq Ahmad, two residents of Ayodhya, filed the petition. In their petition, the duo alleged that they were both victims of the disputed structure’s demolition and witnesses in the trial against the accused persons.
Karsewaks demolished the Babri mosque on December 6, 1992. On September 30, 2020, the special CBI court pronounced its judgement in the criminal trial and acquitted all the accused. While the entire edifice of the case rested on these pieces of documentary evidence, the trial judge had refused to believe newspaper cuttings and video clips as evidence since the originals of the same had not been produced.
Additionally, the trial court ruled that the CBI was unable to produce any evidence that the accused had a meeting of mind with Karsewaks who demolished the structure.
The revisionists have pleaded that the trial court committed error by failing to convict the accused persons despite the presence of ample evidence, assailing the findings of the trial court. The trial judge, according to the revisionists, did not view the conspiracy evidence in the proper context.
The revision petition sought that the judgement from September 30, 2002 be set aside and that hold all the 32 accused quilty and they be punished accordingly.