SC refuses to quash case against UP man for online post saying ‘Babri Masjid will be rebuilt’
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to quash criminal proceedings against a man who was booked in August 2020 for a social media post, which said that “Babri Masjid will one day be rebuilt”, Live Law reported.
The Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindutva extremists on December 6, 1992, because they believed that it stood on the spot where the Hindu deity Ram was born. The incident had triggered communal riots across the country.
In November 2019, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court held that the demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 was illegal, but handed over the land to a trust for a Ram temple to be constructed. At the same time, it directed that a five-acre plot in Ayodhya be allotted to Muslims for a mosque to be constructed.
More than four years later, the Ram temple was inaugurated in Ayodhya in a ceremony led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on January 22, 2024. The construction of the mosque is yet to start.
On Monday, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi dismissed the plea after hearing advocate Talha Abdul Rahman, who appeared for the petitioner, Mansuri, who is a law graduate.
Rahman argued that there was nothing vulgar or inflammatory in Mansuri’s post, and that the objectionable comment that...
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