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Singhal, others also to move court

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW Sept. 30. The Allahabad High Court today stayed the framing of charges against the Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Murli Manohar Joshi, in the Babri Masjid demolition conspiracy case being tried in the special CBI court at Rae Bareli.

Justice Y.R. Tripathi, sitting on the Lucknow Bench of the High Court, in his order also summoned the case diary and other relevant records of the Rae Bareli court pertaining to the case and fixed November 4 for further hearing.

According to Mridul Rakesh, counsel for Dr. Joshi, the stay granted on framing of charges against Dr. Joshi meant that the proceedings in the Rae Bareli court had been stayed as such.

By implication, the stay granted also meant the possibility of a similar relief to the other six accused in the case.

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad working president, Ashok Singhal, when informed about the stay, said the other accused would also move the High Court to seek a similar relief.

Dr. Joshi was among the eight accused against whom the CBI had filed a chargesheet in the Rae Bareli court on the basis of their statements and speeches in 1992 prior to the demolition of the Babri mosque on December 6 that year.

While the special CBI magistrate, V.K. Singh, in his order passed on September 19 last, discharged the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, he summoned the other seven accused, including Dr. Joshi, to personally appear before him on October 10 for framing of charges.

Besides Dr. Joshi and Mr. Singhal, the leaders of the VHP and the BJP accused in the case are Vinay Katiyar, Uma Bharti,Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, Giriraj Kishore and Sadhvi Ritambhara.

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