A special Central Bureau of Investigation court today delivered its verdict in the disputed structure demolition case. BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti and former chief minister Kalyan Singh along with 28 other accused have been acquitted by CBI special judge Surendra Kumar Yadav. The Special CBI Court said that the 1992 demolition of the disputed structure at Ayodhya was not pre-planned.
The court observed that the accused are being acquitted due to the lack of evidence. Twenty-six out of the 32 accused were present in the special court when the judgment was pronounced.
LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, Nritya Gopal Das and Satish Pradhan marked their presence via video conference.
The CBI court has even said that the accused persons were in fact trying to save the Babri structure from being demolished and observed that the evidence was tampered with.
The judgment in the case is 2,300 pages long. While acquitting all the accused, the CBI court has said the “Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) had no role to play directly or indirectly” in the demolition. The court observed that “unknown people threw stones from the back”.
