Ayodhya case
LUCKNOW, June 21: After a long wait of over two decades, the prime accused of the Ayodhya demolition case on December 6,1992 would be recording their statements in the trial court from next week.
A total of 32 accused including former Deputy PM Lal Krishna Advani, former UP CM Kalyan Singh and former union minister Murli Manohar Joshi among others have been informed along with their counsels of the date when they will have to appear virtually to record their statements.
Now the court has fixed the dates for the BJP senior leaders to record their statements, mostly through video conferencing. Already 19 people have recorded their statements so far and now just 13 were left.
According to sources here on Sunday, Advani is slated to record his statement on June 30, former union minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi on July 1 and Kalyan Singh on July 2.
The dates for appearing of other accused are R N Srivastava on June 22, Mahant Nritya Gopal Das on June 23, Jai Bhagwan Goel on June 24, Amar Nath Agarwal on June 25, Sudhir Kakkar on June 26 and Acharya Dharmendra Deo on June 29.
Special court of (Ayodhya matter) judge S K Yadav will record the statements of all the accused under section 313 of the CrPC where the court will confront with the accused on the evidences produced against them.
Last month, the court completed the recording of statements of the CBI witnesses after two of them made their statements through video conferencing. After the SC’s strict direction, the court has speed up its effort to record the statement of 32 accused under section 313 of the CrPC, if required through video conferencing. Earlier the special court(Ayodhya matter) was asked by the SC to complete the trial by April 18 but due to lock down , the judge had sought the extension of the deadline.
On the plea of the special judge, the SC had extended the timeframe to complete the trial by August 31. The trial court, going for day-to-day hearing before the lockdown, had completed the recording of the statement of the 294th witness M Narayanan in the first week of March last.
Mr Narayanan was the last witness on befalf of the CBI in the case, which was lodged by the Ramjanambhoomi police station SHO and Ramjamanbhoomi chowki incharge on December 6,1992. A total of 48 FIRs were registered in connection with the demolition in which CB-CID investigated the matter and then it was handed over to the CBI.
Later on May 31,2017, CBI filed chargesheet against 49 accused in which 17 of them have died. It is expected that the judgement of the court is expected in the late 2020 as the Supreme Court had last year directed the special judge to deliver its judgement in nine month time. But it has been delayed. (UNI)
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