The demolition occurred after a religious ceremony turned violent and resulted in several months of intercommunal rioting between India's Hindu and Muslim communities, causing the death of at least 2,000 people most of whom were muslims.
But even going by the Hindus' version that mosque was built on the land where temple existed, this is no reason to demolish that structure in post-cold war era in view of full presence of national and international media.
A subsequent land title case was lodged in the Allahabad High Court, the verdict of which was pronounced 30th of September, 2010.
