{"id":328261,"date":"2020-11-02T09:05:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328261"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:05:30","slug":"sc%e2%80%8b-refuses-to-extend-security-of-former-judge-who-pronounced-babri-masjid-case-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sc%e2%80%8b-refuses-to-extend-security-of-former-judge-who-pronounced-babri-masjid-case-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"SC\u200b refuses to extend security of former judge who pronounced Babri Masjid case verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to extend the security of retired judge SK Yadav, who had recently pronounced the verdict in the sensitive Babri Masjid demolition case and acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP veterans L K Advani and Uma Bharti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice RF Nariman was considering the former judge\u2019s request seeking an extension of his personal security in view of the sensitivity of the case decided by him recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHaving perused the letter dated September 30, 2020, we do not consider it appropriate to continue providing the security,\u201d the bench said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench was also comprising\u00a0Justices Navin Sinha and Krishna Murari.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The special CBI court, had on September 30, acquitted all 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case observing that the demolition was not pre-planned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Babri Masjid was demolished in December 1992 by \u201ckar sevaks\u201d who claimed that the mosque in Ayodhya was built on the site of an ancient Ram temple. The land dispute over the site was settled last year by the Supreme Court, which allowed the construction of a Ram temple. The court also directed that an alternative site should be allotted in Ayodhya for the construction of a mosque.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Monday refused to extend the security of retired judge SK Yadav, who had recently pronounced the verdict in the sensitive Babri Masjid demolition case and acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP veterans L K Advani and Uma Bharti. A bench of the Supreme Court headed by Justice RF Nariman was considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13661,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328263,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328261\/revisions\/328263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}