The Supreme Court declined to interfere in a case against a law graduate who posted that the Babri Masjid “will be rebuilt.”
The Bench said the defence can be raised before the trial court as the plea was withdrawn after brief exchanges.
The Allahabad High Court has referred a significant legal question regarding its power to quash FIRs to a nine-judge bench. Justice Deshwal disagreed with a previous seven-judge ruling from 1989, citing recent Supreme Court decisions that broadened the interpretation of High Courts’ inherent powers, arguing the old precedent is now “obsolete.”
