India top court rules in favour of Hindus in religious site dispute

India's Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favour of a Hindu group in a lon...

Policemen stand guard next to a security barricade on a street, before the Supreme Court's verdict on a disputed religious site claimed by both majority Hindus and Muslim, in Ayodhya, India, November 9, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer

NEW DELHI - India’s Supreme Court on Saturday ruled in favour of a Hindu group in a long-running legal battle over a centuries-old religious site also claimed by Muslims, in a ruling that paves the way for the construction of a Hindu temple at the site.The dispute centres around who should control the land upon which lie the ruins of the 16th-century Babri Mosque, destroyed by a Hindu mob in 1992.

Reporting by Suchitra Mohanty, Nigam Prusty and Sankalp Phartiyal; Editing by Alexandra Ulmer and Tom Hogue

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