Lucknow: The early winter air hangs heavy and the smell of fresh paint mixes with that of bleaching powder, used extensively to sanitise disinfect the campus.
Almost four years after the Lucknow High Court shifted out to the new building on Faizabad road, the old High court building in Kaiserbagh is buzzing with activity again.
It is here that the special CBI court will pronounce its verdict in the Babri mosque demolition case on Wednesday.
Former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, former union ministers, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, former MP Vinay Katiyar and several other VHP leaders are among the 32 accused whose fate will be decided in the case on Wednesday.
Ahead of the court verdict, a high alert has been sounded across the state for Wednesday.
According to sources, more than 2,000 police personnel, half of them in civil…