Former Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud’s argument in the media that the very erection of the mosque [Babri Masjid] was a desecration does not feature as a reasoning anywhere in the 2019 Ramjanmabhoomi judgment of which he is largely believed to be the author.

The 1045-page judgment on the title battle over the 1,500 square yards in the town of Ayodhya is founded, instead, on the “test of preponderance of probabilities” over who had possession of the outer and inner courtyards of the disputed premises.

Ayodhya verdict: All you need to know

The five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court had taken the “balance of probabilities” to come to a conclusion that Hindus had unimpeded control over the outer courtyard despite a grill-brick wall constructed in 1857. As regards the inner court

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