The Babri Masjid Action Committee was expected to submit a memorandum to the district magistrates on Tuesday to mark the 24th anniversary of the shrine’s demolition. In the memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, they will demand that the cases related to Babri Masjid demolition be expedited, the committee’s officials said.

BMAC convener Zafaryab Jilani told PTI that they will request the Centre to move “an application in the Supreme Court for early hearing of appeals to decide land ownership of the site in Ayodhya”. Jilani added that they will also request concerned authorities to include conspiracy charges against the accused. The Central Bureau of Investigation, which had filed a supplementary chargesheet in the special court of Rae Bareli in 2003, did not mention the charge of criminal conspiracy under Section 120 (B) of the Indian Penal Code.

The dispute regarding the 70-acre Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi plot in Ayodhya first flared up in 1948. On September 30, 2010, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court divided the site where the Babri Masjid once stood into three parts. The bench said two parts would be given to Hindus and the third to the Sunni Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh that represented the Muslims. All the parties involved in the dispute had challenged the decision in the Supreme Court.

On December 6, 1992, the mosque was demolished in broad daylight after lakhs of karsevaks had gathered at the site. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders like LK Advani and Uma Bharati had also been present at the site.