Supporters of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) organisation celebrate the Indian Supreme Court's verdict on disputed religious site in Ayodhya awarded to Hindus, in Ahmedabad on November 9, 2019. India's top court handed a huge victory to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party on November 9 by awarding Hindus control of a bitterly disputed holy site that has sparked deadly sectarian violence in the past. SAM PANTHAKY / AFP
India’s top court cleared the way on Saturday for a Hindu temple to be constructed at a hotly disputed holy site, in a huge victory for Hindu nationalists under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Supreme Court ruled that the site in Ayodhya in northern India, where Hindu mobs destroyed a 460-year-old mosque in 1992, must be handed over to a trust to oversee the construction of a Hindu temple, subject to conditions.
A separate piece of land in Ayodhya would be given over to Muslim groups to build a new mosque, the court ruled in a historic judgement aimed at ending a bitter and decades-old legal and sectarian battle.
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