The Court, therefore, asked the government, which acquired the disputed area and the adjoining land in 1993, to transfer the area to a trust within three months. The trust’s responsibility will be to manage the disputed area, and think of a plan to build a Ram temple on it.
But there was evidence that the Muslims regularly offered namaz in the inner structure between 1857 and 1949, and the last one was on December 16, 1949. The Muslims’ exclusion of the worship and possession of the inner courtyard “took place on the intervening night between 22/23 December 1949, when the mosque was desecrated by the installation of Hindu idols”.