Professor Dr.Mohan G Gopal said that the recent remarks by former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute may provide sufficient grounds to file a curative petition before the Supreme Court challenging the verdict.

Prof. Gopal opined that Justice Chandrachud's observation - that the very construction of the Babri Masjid was a "fundamental act of desecration" - was at odds with the 2019 judgment, which found no evidence of destroying a temple to construct the mosque.

The 2019 judgment, delivered by a Bench of then CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer, allowed the construction of a Ram Temple at the disputed site to Hindu parties while holding that Muslims had failed to establish exclusive

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