The much-awaited Ayodhya verdict was announced earlier today. In a shocking incident, two people were taken into preventive custody for allegedly spreading rumors on the verdict of the Supreme Court, said police.
“One of them had called up the police on its emergency number 100 to report planned violence by a community but his claims were found untrue,” Senior Superintendent of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Vaibhav Krishna, said. “The other is an office-bearer of a local political outfit and has a history of making comments and remarks that incite communal discord,” he told news agency, adding that both of them have been taken into preventive custody.
The district police chief warned that “anyone spreading rumors” which have an adverse impact on law and order “will be immediately arrested”. In one of the most important and anticipated judgments in India’s history, a 5-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi put an end to the more than a century-old dispute that has torn the social fabric of the nation.
For the uninitiated, the court paved the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site at Ayodhya and directed the Centre to allot an alternative 5-acre plot to the Sunni Waqf Board for building a new mosque at a “prominent” place in the holy town in Uttar Pradesh.
