The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a notice to senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani and 19 others over a petition filed by Haji Mehboob in the Babri masjid case.
Top BJP leaders including Uma Bharti, Murli Manohar Joshi and Kalyan Singh are amongst those notified by the apex court.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been granted four weeks time to respond to the plea in the case.
On December 6, 1992, a mob of Hindu religious volunteers demolished the Babri mosque allegedly been built by the Mughal ruler Babar in the sixteenth century at a place where Lord Ram temple existed. Hindus regard Ayodhya as the birth place of Lord Rama.
