Editing Babri Masjid (section)

== Title cases verdict ==
A land title case on the site was lodged in the [[Allahabad High Court]], the verdict of which was pronounced on 30 September 2010. In their verdict, the three judges of The Allahabad High Court ruled that the {{convert|2+3/4|acre|ha|order=flip}} of Ayodhya land be divided into three parts, with one-third going to the [[Rama|Ram Lalla]] or Infant Lord Rama represented by the [[Hindu Maha Sabha]] for the construction of the Ram temple, one-third going to the Islamic [[Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board]] and the remaining one-third going to [[Nirmohi Akhara]], a Hindu religious denomination. While the three-judge bench was not unanimous that the disputed structure was constructed after demolition of a temple, it did agree that a temple or a temple structure predated the mosque at the same site.<ref>[http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/ayodhyabench4.html Ram Janm Bhumi Babri Masjid: Gist of Judgments] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928085435/http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/ayodhyabench4.html |date=28 September 2011 }}</ref> The excavations by the [[Archaeological Survey of India]] were heavily used as evidence by the court that the predating structure was a massive Hindu religious building.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/ayodhyafiles/hondvsj-gist-vol1.pdf |title=Issues For Briefing |publisher=Allahabad High Court |access-date=11 June 2012 |archive-date=25 December 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225023953/http://elegalix.allahabadhighcourt.in/elegalix/ayodhyafiles/hondvsj-gist-vol1.pdf%20 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The five judge [[Supreme Court of India|Supreme Court]] bench heard the title dispute cases from August to October 2019. The Court observed that archaeological evidence from ASI shows that the Babri Masjid was constructed on a "structure", whose architecture was distinctly indigenous and non-Islamic.<ref name="BBC 2019" /><ref name=hindubusinessline-16Oct19 /> The court concluded that no evidence was found that the structure was specifically demolished for the construction of the Babri Masjid.<ref name="Daniyal 2019">{{cite web | last=Daniyal | first=Shoaib | title=No, the Supreme Court did not uphold the claim that Babri Masjid was built by demolishing a temple | website=Scroll.in | date=2019-11-11 | url=https://scroll.in/article/943337/no-the-supreme-court-did-not-uphold-the-claim-that-babri-masjid-was-built-by-demolishing-a-temple}}</ref> On 9 November 2019, the Supreme Court ordered the land to be handed over to a trust to build the Hindu temple. It also ordered the government to allot an alternative {{convert|5|acre|ha|0|order=flip|adj=on}} plot to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board to build a mosque,<ref name=timesofindia-09Nov19 /> which the government allotted in [[Dhannipur]], Ayodhya.<ref name=indiatoday-05Feb20>{{Cite news|title=Where is Dhannipur? All about the site allotted to Sunni Waqf Board for a mosque|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/30-km-from-where-babri-masjid-stood-here-s-all-you-need-to-know-about-dhannipur-1643583-2020-02-05|date=5 February 2020|work=[[India Today]]|access-date=28 August 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801101213/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/30-km-from-where-babri-masjid-stood-here-s-all-you-need-to-know-about-dhannipur-1643583-2020-02-05|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=businessstandard-14Feb2020 /> {{asof|2024|09}}, construction of the new mosque had not commenced.<ref name="not commenced"/>