The court rejected the title suit of the Sunni Wakf law board.
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The verdict is one of the longest running (60 years) and contentious cases of independent India.
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Here’s a look at what really were the legal issues involved in the case.
It has been the longest running legal dispute in India. Call it what you will - Babri dispute or Ram Mandir dispute - it all simply boiled down to who owned 60 sq ft by 40 ft land in Ayodhya. A place where the Babri Masjid used to stand till December 6, 1992.
The dispute actually dates back to 1885 when the first petition was filed by the head of the Nirmohi Akhara asking for permission to offer prayers to Ram Lalla inside what was known as the Babri Masjid.
That permission was never given. But the following year in 1886, district Judge of Faizabad court..F.E.A Chamier gave his verdict - "It is most unfortunate that a masjid should have been built on land specially held sacred by the Hindus, but as that event occurred 356 years ago, it is too late now to remedy the grievance."
Since then, that is, from 1950 onwards a total of five title suits were filed in the Allahabad High Court, four in favour of Hindus and one from the Sunni Waqf Board - all staking claim to the title of the plot of land of the Babri Mosque.
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