Post-Babri Masjid demolition riots: SC gives split verdict

By TwoCircles.net staff reporter

New Delhi: Two courts of different status, two cases related to the nation-wide communal riots following the demolition of Babri Masjid, and two different verdicts, but what is similar is the time the procedure took: full 15 years.

On 3rd May the Supreme Court of India gave a split verdict on confirming the conviction of five persons accused of murder during the communal riots of 1992-1993 in Assam. As the two-judge bench comprising Justices S.B. Sinha and H.S. Bedi had different opinions, the matter has now been placed before the Chief Justice of India. The Chief Justice will refer the case to a larger bench.

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Muslims court arrest to demand right to pray at Nawab Masjid

By Tarique Anwar, TwoCircles.net

Vellore (Tamilnadu): A sea of Muslims disciplined and peacefully descended on the famous Vellore Fort to demand their right to pray. Located within Vellore Fort, Muslims are not allowed to pray in 250 years old Nawab Masjid. Muslims of Tamilnadu have been demanding for a long time that the masjid be opened up for prayers. On Friday, about ten thousand Muslims under the banner of Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK) marched towards the fort to be allowed to pray. They were prevented from entering the fort, as a result they offered prayers outside the fort on the road. More than two thousands of them detained and later released.

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Sai Baba To Be Seen In Moon? But Where Was Moon?

My blog just posted suggests that Sai Baba has - leave aside his recent would-be moon sightings - not been particularly bright himself.

And how can he be so when the evidence - that can less and less be hidden from his rank-and-file devotees - suggests that he now suffers from senile dementia?

Sai Baba did not not select the brightest moon, nor a cloudless evening by which his supposedly religious and spiritual élite of devotees could view him in the moon on October 4, 2007, nor the brightest students of his alumni - who now rush to the Internet to prove that Sai mooning is not moon madness.

You may read this blog at: http://barrypittard.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/sai-baba-to-be-seen-in-moon...

Barry Pittard (former lecturer at Sathya Sai College, Whitefield, via Bangalore. I spent a number of deeply satisfying years in India, and live in Australia)

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