New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning ruled that Lal Krishna Advani and several other senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders including Murli Manohar Joshi and Union Minister Uma Bharti will face conspiracy charges in the Babri Masjid demolition case.

The Court ordered a time-bound trial, ordering that the Judge hearing the case shall not be transferred until judgement is delivered and that there shall be no adjournments during the trial except under exceptional circumstances.

The Allahabad High Court had earlier ruled in favour of the conspiracy charges being dropped against the veteran BJP leaders including Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is prosecuting the Babri demolition cases, had appealed against the High Court’s order. The SC today allowed the CBI’s appeal and also ordered the clubbing of two trials that are currently going on in the Babri demolition case.

The case against Advani, Joshi and Bharti was being heard in a Rae Bareli Court while a Lucknow Court was hearing a case against unnamed karsevaks, who are accused of actually demolishing the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992.