{"id":23308,"date":"2020-09-30T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/india-bjp-leaders-acquitted-babri-mosque-demolition-case"},"modified":"2020-09-30T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T14:23:50","slug":"indias-bjp-leaders-acquitted-in-babri-mosque-demolition-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23308","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s BJP leaders acquitted in Babri mosque demolition case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Court clears 32 men of inciting clashes that led to destruction of site by Hindu rioters in 1992 <\/p>\n<p>A special court has acquitted all senior figures in India\u2019s ruling party of their role in the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu rioters, in a further court victory for the Hindu nationalist government over the bitterly disputed holy site.<\/p>\n<p>All 32 men, including the former deputy prime minister LK Advani, three leaders from the ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) and a sitting BJP politician, were cleared of inciting the violence in 1992 that led to a 16th-century mosque in the city of Ayodhya being torn down by an armed Hindu nationalist mob.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/india-bjp-leaders-acquitted-babri-mosque-demolition-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court clears 32 men of inciting clashes that led to destruction of site by Hindu rioters in 1992 A special court has acquitted all senior figures in India\u2019s ruling party of their role in the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu rioters, in a further&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[516,62,447,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23309,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23308\/revisions\/23309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}