Hours after a special court on Wednesday delivered its verdict in the Babri Masjid demolition case and acquitted all the accused, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen president Asaduddin Owaisi said that it is a black day for the Indian judiciary, and questioned whether it was sorcery that led to the mosque’s demolition.
Mr Owaisi was speaking to the media at party headquarters in Darussalaam where he wondered whether the CBI would file an appeal to maintain its independence. He also said that the judgment ‘satisfies the collective conscience of Hindutva, its followers and its ideology’.
The Hyderabad MP reiterated that the Supreme Court in the Babri Masjid civil dispute case had stated that the incident was an ‘egregious violation of the rule of law’ and said, “I am unable to comprehend this that when the SC said that this is an ‘egregious violation of the rule of…