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Ayodhya, The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) will challenge in the Supreme Court the order of the special CBI court acquitting the accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case. The Allahabad High Court recently dismissed a petition by Ayodhya residents Haji Mehboob and Syed Akhlaq seeking review of the CBI court verdict in the Babri demolition case.
Board’s executive member and spokesperson Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas told ‘PTI-Bhasha’ on Wednesday that the board has challenged in the Supreme Court the acquittal of all the accused by the special CBI court in the Babri demolition case. decided to give. “We will definitely go to the Supreme Court as the Supreme Court itself had accepted that the demolition of the Babri Masjid was a criminal act,” he said.
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He said, “A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court had said in the historic judgment given on November 9, 2019 in the Ram Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid case that the demolition of the Babri Masjid was a serious violation of the law. All the accused in this case are still out of the grip of the law.” Ilyas said that the revision petitions of Haji Mehboob and Syed Akhlaq, who were rejected by the High Court, are both residents of Ayodhya. They were witnesses in the CBI court in this case and on December 6, 1992, their houses were also attacked by a mob assembled by the accused. Both of them live near Babri Masjid.
It is noteworthy that on September 30, 2020, the special CBI court acquitted all 32 accused including former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani, former Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, senior BJP leaders Vinay Katiyar and Sadhvi Ritambhara in the Babri demolition case. After that, on January 8, 2021, Mehboob and Akhlaq approached the High Court to review the decision of the CBI court. On November 9 this year, the court rejected their plea saying that both the petitioners were not victims of the Babri demolition case. (agency)
