The Supreme Court postponed hearing in the case against senior BJP leaders named in the Babri Masjid demolition case to Thursday as one of the judges who heard the case in the past was not available for hearing.
The Bench of Justices PC Ghose and Rohington F Nariman will hear the appeals filed by the CBI on Thursday. Although the matter was listed on Wednesday before a Bench headed by Justice Ghose, hearing was not taken up as Justice Nariman was not present. It was Justice Nariman who had on March 6 created ripples in political circles by commenting that the charge of criminal conspiracy against top senior BJP leaders l K Advani, MM Joshi and Uma Bharti ought not to have been dropped on technical grounds.
Senior advocate K K Venugopal, appearing for the BJP leaders, sought an adjournment of four weeks to file some documents. But the Bench refused and posted the case for hearing on Thursday.