SC's Babri ruling might revive interest in Ram temple, help BJP in 2019 LS

SC orders trial against Advani, M M Joshi and others into conspiracy case for demolition of mosque

In what was widely interpreted as a jolt to presidential ambitions of senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, the Supreme Court today ordered that the two, along with several others, be prosecuted for criminal conspiracy in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

The court, however, said that there shall be no fresh trial, no transfer of the judge conducting the trial until the entire trial concludes and the sessions court will complete the trial and deliver the judgement within a period of two years.

The renewed hearings in the case is set to bring the