New Delhi: On Monday, The Supreme Court denied extending the personal security of special judge SK Yadav, who retired subsequent to delivering the decision in the Babri demolition case.
A bench directed by Justice R.F. Nariman, after a concise hearing in the issue, stated, “We do not consider it necessary to continue the security for him.”
Yadav had requested continuation in his own security taking into account the sensitivity of his last case. He had composed a letter asking the top court to extend with his own security. The bench said subsequent to reading through the letter it doesn’t see the merit in extending his security.
A Special CBI court hearing the Babri mosque demolition case of December 6, 1992, absolved all the 32 charged saying it was spontaneous and not an arranged move.
SK Yadav, 60, was set to retire in 2019, however, he was given expansions by the top court to hear the many years-old cases which he had been dealing with since 2015. On his last day in the office, the former judge had announced the decision, absolving all the accused.
On September 30, in the decision, Yadav had seen that the proof against the accused was based on newspaper reports. Those absolved in the case that lasted for 28 years incorporate ex-Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, ex-Union Ministers M.M. Joshi, Uma Bharti, ex-Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh and Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, among few others.
The decision came less than a year after the Supreme Court decision in the Ayodhya title conflict, which made the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the Ayodhya site.
The decision by a supreme court in the Babri Masjid demolition case comes 28 years after karsevaks demolished the sixteenth-century mosque and close to 12 months after the Supreme Court settled the land case for a Ram temple at the contested Ayodhya site.
In the 2,300-page order, the court settled that the authenticity of audio, video gave by CBI couldn’t be established during the trial, and the audio of the speeches, put on record as proof, were not clear.
The CBI presented 351 witnesses and 600 documents as proof under the watchful eye of the court and charges were framed against 48 individuals, 16 died throughout the course of the trial.
The court said all the proof on the paper has been looked into and the charge against the accused couldn’t be proved. The court saw that it has come on record that after the structure was demolished Advani was unhappy.
