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Court defers decision on Advani, others in Ayodhya case
Rae Bareilly, Sept 12: The special court hearing the Ayodhya demolition case against Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and some other top BJP leaders will pronounce its orders on framing of charges against them on September 19.
Rae Bareilly, Sept 12: The special court hearing the Ayodhya demolition case against Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and some other top BJP leaders will pronounce its orders on framing of charges against them on September 19.
Special Judge V K Singh announced this after defence counsel filed his objections to the CBI's written arguments.
Soon after the proceedings started, the judge pointed out to defence counsel Mridul Rakesh that he had not filed his objections so far and that he could do it only today.
After this, the counsel filed his objections saying CBI's reliance on the Allahabad High Court judgement which had quashed proceedings against Advani and seven others on the ground that the notification constituting the special court to try them was illegal was not correct.
Apart from Advani, the accused in the case are HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, BJP leaders Uma Bharti and Vinay Katiyar, VHP leaders Ashok Singhal, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and Giriraj Kishore, and Sadhvi Rithambara.
Rakesh argued that the high court had said that the cognisance, committal and trial of the case arising out of crime no 198 of 1992 was illegal and, therefore, the CBI could not cite the judgement in its favour.
Maintaining that there was no case against his clients, the counsel accused the CBI of working under the influence of rival political parties. He termed the investigating agency as "clandestine bureau of investigation".
He said the agency had listed 800 witnesses in the joint chargesheet filed by it in the CBI court at Lucknow while it had listed only 149 witnesses in this case and wondered who had asked them not to list all those 800 witnesses.
Bureau Report
Special Judge V K Singh announced this after defence counsel filed his objections to the CBI's written arguments.
Soon after the proceedings started, the judge pointed out to defence counsel Mridul Rakesh that he had not filed his objections so far and that he could do it only today.
After this, the counsel filed his objections saying CBI's reliance on the Allahabad High Court judgement which had quashed proceedings against Advani and seven others on the ground that the notification constituting the special court to try them was illegal was not correct.
Apart from Advani, the accused in the case are HRD Minister Murli Manohar Joshi, BJP leaders Uma Bharti and Vinay Katiyar, VHP leaders Ashok Singhal, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and Giriraj Kishore, and Sadhvi Rithambara.
Rakesh argued that the high court had said that the cognisance, committal and trial of the case arising out of crime no 198 of 1992 was illegal and, therefore, the CBI could not cite the judgement in its favour.
Maintaining that there was no case against his clients, the counsel accused the CBI of working under the influence of rival political parties. He termed the investigating agency as "clandestine bureau of investigation".
He said the agency had listed 800 witnesses in the joint chargesheet filed by it in the CBI court at Lucknow while it had listed only 149 witnesses in this case and wondered who had asked them not to list all those 800 witnesses.
Bureau Report