The CBI court’s verdict in a criminal case dispels the 28-year-long shadow that has stalked the leading lights of the Sangh Parivar’s Ramjanma-bhoomi movement which led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid. That event, which cleaved society and politics, and set off violence across the country also cleared the way for what culminated in Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the first brick for the Ram temple last month.
Despite the Supreme Court calling the demolition an “egregious violation of rule of law,” Wednesday’s verdict gives an institutional sheen…