Murli Manohar Joshi
University: Unknown University
State: India
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Joshi was the President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from 1991 to 1993. He is a prominent member of the party and a former member of parliament for the Kanpur parliamentary constituency. At an early age, he made touch with the RSS in Delhi and took part in the Cow Protection Movement in 1953–1954.
Joshi was a major player in the 1992 demolition of the Babri Mosque. He was one of the leaders of the nationwide Hindu nationalist movement that was responsible for the mosque’s demolition, along with other prominent members of the BJP such as Lal Krishna Advani, Uma Bharti, and Kalyan Singh. At the location, thousands of karsevaks from all around the nation had congregated. Nationwide riots were sparked by the occurrence.
The Supreme Court ordered a day-to-day trial in the case on April 19, 2017, with a two-year deadline for its conclusion. The criminal conspiracy accusations against Joshi, Advani, Vinay Katiyar, Sadhvi Ritambhara, and Vishnu Hari Dalmia were also reinstated by the court.
The Supreme Court declared in November 2019 that the 1992 “destruction of the mosque and the obliteration of the Islamic structure” constituted a “egregious violation of the rule of law” in its ruling on the associated Ayodhya title dispute.
Six years after Narendra Modi took office, in 2020, the special CBI court found insufficient evidence to convict all 32 defendants in the Babri Masjid destruction case, and so cleared everyone of all charges.
The retired judge who had issued the acquittal ruling, Surendra Yadav, was appointed Deputy Lokayukta (III) in Uttar Pradesh shortly after.
Sources :
https://thewire.in/law/babri-demolition-trial-murli-manohar-joshi-deposes-pleads-innocence
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