I’m proud to accept I was involved in Babri Masjid’s demolition: Sadhvi Pragya

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) Candidate, and 2008 Malegaon blast accused, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur on Sunday said she is “proud” to accept that she was involved in the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya. When she was asked by reporters about her involvement in the demolition of Babri Masjid and if she would play a major role in building a Ram temple in Ayodhya, Ms. Thakur said, “I will go to make the Ram Temple. I have said it yesterday and I am not denying it that I had…

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Is mosque integral to Islam? Query may delay Babri case

Adjudication of the politically sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case will be delayed as the Supreme Court on Friday said it will first decide whether the apex court’s 1994 decision that a “mosque is not an essential part of Islam” needs to be re-examined by a Constitution bench. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer said it would examine whether a five-judge bench was required to go into the question of whether a mosque was integral to Islam, but they turned down the…

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