Babri: HC notice for Advani, Thackeray

Forty months after the CBI filed a revision petition related to the Babri Masjid demolition, the Allahabad High Court today issued notices to a host of leaders including L.K. Advani, Bal Thackeray and VHP’s Ashok Singhal. With this, the court has opened the possibility of bringing Advani back into the demolition case as an accused.

Justice M.A. Khan issued the notices on the CBI’s petition — challenging the decision of a Lucknow Special Court in May 2001 to drop proceedings against 21 of the 47 accused in the demolition case.

Though the revision petition came up for hearing several times since it was filed in June 2001, the CBI’s special counsel, P.K. Chaubey, presented his arguments in the court only today.