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Court dismisses pleas against Advani, Singhal

LUCKNOW, JAN. 21. The Special Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court hearing the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits today dismissed the contempt petitions against the Deputy Prime Minister, L.K. Advani, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader, Ashok Singhal, and the printer and publisher of a Hindi daily for publishing their statements on the construction of a Ram temple despite a court bar on it.

Dismissing the petitions filed by one Haji Mehboob Ahmed, a Division Bench, comprising Justice Bhanwar Singh, Justice S.R. Alam and Justice Khemkaran, said the statements in question were "mere suggestions and nothing else". — PTI

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