Lucknow, Sept. 18 -- In a surprise move, the main litigant from the Muslim side in the Ram Janmabhoomi title suit, Iqbal Ansari, has issued an appeal that the Babri mosque demolition case be withdrawn and all the 32 accused be freed.
The appeal came a day after the special CBI court said the judgement on the demolition case would be delivered on September 30.
The 32 accused whom Ansari wants to be freed include former deputy prime minister LK Advani, former Union minister Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharati, and former chief minister of UP, Kalyan Singh.
Ansari told reporters in Ayodhya on Thursday that the Supreme Court had given the entire land for the construction of Ram temple. He said some of the accused in the demolition case had died...