that the Babri Masjid was built on a vacant piece of land. At that juncture, the counsel for the Muslim side went back on the earlier claim, and insisted that the underlying structure was an Idgah ...

Babri Masjid, termed a disputed structure by Lal Krishna Advani, would remain safe. On December 6, 1992, that veneer of belief was shattered forever. Even then no one imagined that within a short ...