Soutik Biswas: Babri mosque: India's Muslims feel more abandoned than ever
NB: Our justice system has clinching evidence of the destruction of a temple by Babar in 1528 AD. They have no evidence of the destruction of a mosque in 1992. Not to mention many other recent crimes about which there is (apparently) no evidence, or files disappear mysteriously. DS .. Nearly three decades, 850 witnesses, more than 7,000 documents, photographs and videotapes later, a court in India found no-one guilty of razing a 16th-Century mosque which was attacked by Hindu mobs in the holy city of Ayodhya. Among the 32 living accused were former deputy premier LK Advani, and a host of senior BJP leaders. Wednesday's court judgement acquitted them all, saying the destruction of the mosque in 1992 had been the work of unidentified "anti-socials" and had not been planned.
This was despite numerous credible eyewitness accounts that the demolition, which took just a few hours, had been rehearsed and carried out with impunity and the connivance of a section of the local police in front of thousands of spectators. Last year, India's Supreme Court conceded it had been a "calculated act" and an "egregious violation of the rule of law". So how do we explain the acquittals?
Lets believe everything we're told..
Generally the verdict is being seen as another indictment of India's sluggish and chaotic criminal justice system. Many fear it has been damaged beyond repair by decades of brazen political interference, underfunding and weak capacity. But more specifically the verdict has thrown into sharp relief the increasing marginalisation of India's 200 million Muslims…
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