SC rewarded the very violator it named in Ayodhya ruling: Faizan Mustafa

Senior jurist and Vice Chancellor of NALSAR University of Law believes no excavation would have been ordered and the apex court's verdict might have been different had the mosque not been razed

The Supreme Court gave its verdict in the long-running Ayodhya title dispute on November 9. In a unanimous verdict, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the apex court granted the ownership of the disputed 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya to a group representing the Hindus, marking another chapter in the centuries-old religious dispute that has been one of the country’s most politically sensitive issues. The court tried to balance the judgment by ordering the allotment of a 5-acre plot at a prominent location in Ayodhya to the Sunni Waqf Board for the construction of a mosque.

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