A Special CBI court hearing the Babri mosque demolition case, acquitted all the 32 accused on Wednesday saying it was spontaneous and not a planned move.
In the verdict, special CBI judge S.K. Yadav observed that the evidence against the accused was based on newspaper reports. Those acquitted in the case that lasted 28 years include former Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, former Union Ministers M.M. Joshi, Uma Bharti, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh and Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, among others. The verdict came less than a year after the Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya title dispute, which paved the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the Ayodhya site.
In the 2300-page order, the court concluded that the authenticity of audio, video provided by the CBI could not be established.
