Wednesday, July 6 2005 15:15 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Lucknow: The Babri Masjid demolition today (July 6, 2005) returned to haunt BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) President L K Advani when the Allahabad High Court set aside a trial court order discharging him in the case and also directed trial against eight others including Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and Ashok Singhal.

Disposing of criminal revision petitions filed against Advani's discharge by a Rae Bareli court in September 2003, Justice Y R Tripathi also directed the former Deputy Prime Minister to appear before the trial court on July 28 to "receive further directions".

"The criminal revision petition (filed by Haji Mehboob and Mohd Siddique is allowed and the impugned order (of 2003) insofar as it relates to the discharge of L K Advani is set aside. "It is directed that L K Advani along with five criminal revision petititoners (Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti, Vinay Katiyar, Ashok Singhal, Acharya Giriraj Kishore, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya and sadhvi Ritambhara) shall also be charged and tried for the offences under Section 149 and sub-section (1) of 505 of IPC ready with Section 149 in accordance with law," Justice Tripathi observed in his 45-page order.

Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code deals with intention to provoke people for rioting, arson and indulging rioting with intention to create disorder, while sub-section (1) of 505 deals with delivering fiery speeches which will hurt religious feelings and create discord among different communities.