Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud told journalist Sreenivasan Jain in an interview for Newslaundry that the building of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in the 16th century was “the fundamental act of desecration” at the site where the Ram Temple now stands.

Chandrachud was part of a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court that delivered its verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi dispute on November 9, 2019.

The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was demolished on December 6, 1992, by Hindu extremists who claimed that an ancient Ram temple stood on the site.

In 2019, the Supreme Court bench directed that the plot be allotted to a trust that would oversee the construction of a Ram Temple, while a separate five-acre plot be allotted in Ayodhya to Muslims for constructing a mosque.

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