India, Nov. 11 -- It took less than one hour for Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi to give the unanimous verdict of the five-member Supreme Court bench, which heard the decades-old Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid case. The whole disputed land of 2.77 acres will go to the Hindus while the Muslims will be granted five acres of land in a prominent but separate area in Ayodhya.
The Central Government will have to appoint a board of Trustees with representatives from some of the disputants, excluding, of course, Muslim bodies, within three months on how the disputed area is to be administered or used for construction or other purposes. In short, construction of a "magnificent" temple where the Babri Masjid stood till 1992 can begin as early as th...