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Babri demolition case: SC orders time-bound trial of Advani, Joshi

The apex Court on Wednesday ordered day-to-day trial to be concluded in two years

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File photo of BJP leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi

Archis MohanPTI New Delhi
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders L K Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti will be prosecuted for criminal conspiracy in the politically sensitive Babri Masjid demolition case, with the Supreme Court on Wednesday ordering day-to-day trial to be concluded in two years.
 
The apex court, which dubbed the demolition of the medieval era monument as a “crime” that shook the “secular fabric of the Constitution”, allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation’s plea on restoration of the criminal conspiracy charge against the VVIP accused.
 
The court, however, said there will be no fresh trial, no transfer of