New Delhi: Legal scholar Professor Mohan Gopal has said that former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud’s recent comments on the Babri Masjid dispute may provide sufficient grounds to seek a curative petition against the Supreme Court’s 2019 Ayodhya judgment.

Speaking at the CH Mohammed Koya National Seminar at the University of Calicut, Prof. Gopal observed that Justice Chandrachud’s remark describing the Babri Masjid’s construction as a “fundamental act of desecration” contradicted the 2019 verdict. The judgment, delivered by a five-judge Bench led by then CJI Ranjan Gogoi, had noted that there was no evidence to prove the mosque was built after demolishing a temple. Justice Chandrachud was widely believed to have authored that ruling.

Prof. Gopal argued that such inconsistency under

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