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Ramayana, a Hindu epic whose earliest portions states that the location of Rama's birthplace is on the banks of the Sarayu river in Ayodhya

Mughals demolished a Hindu shrine that marked the spot, and constructed a mosque in its place

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The mosque was constructed during 1528-29 by Mir Baqi, a commander of the Mughal emperor Babur.

The demolition of Babri Masjid by Hindu nationalists in 1993

Since then, the archaeological excavations have indicated the presence of a temple beneath the mosque rubble, but whether the structure was a Rama shrine (or a temple at all) remains disputed.

On February 8, 2018, the Supreme Court said that the politically sensitive case was purely a “land dispute” and will be dealt with in normal course.

On October 29, 2018, the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute was postponed to January 2019.

The hearing dates of the Ayodhya case have been fixed in January 2019.

The final judgement in the Ayodhya dispute was declared by the Supreme Court of India on 9 November 2019

The Supreme Court of India ordered the disputed land (2.77 acres) to be handed over to a trust (to be created by Government of India) to build the Ram Janmabhoomi (revered as the birthplace of Hindu deity, Ram) temple.

The court also ordered the government to give an alternate 5 acres of land in another place to the Sunni Waqf Board for the purpose of building a mosque.

For 15 days preceding verdict, restrictions were imposed in Ayodhya to prevent violence. Security arrangements were increased across India. Thousands of paramilitary forces and police troops were deployed in Ayodhya and surveillance of region was carried out using CCTV and drones

Bench of Judges

Ranjan Gogoi,
DY Chandrachud,
Sharad Arvind Bobde,
S. Abdul Nazeer,
Ashok Bhushan

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