New Delhi: The Ayodhya verdict of 2019, which was once seen as having settled one of the country’s most prolonged disputes, is again in the spotlight. A remark by former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has triggered a fresh round of debate on the integrity of the judgment and the processes that led to it. Former judges, legal scholars and political voices are now openly questioning whether the final word has really been spoken on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.

At the centre of this renewed controversy is Justice Chandrachud’s description of the Babri Masjid’s construction as a “fundamental act of desecration.” The remark is striking because, in the 2019 judgment itself which Chandrachud is widely believed to have authored the five-judge Bench had held that there was no evid

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