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The Fearless Judge: The Life and Times of Justice A.M. Ahmadi
By Insiyah Vahanvaty
Published by Juggernaut
Price ₹899; pages 325
A few weeks after the demolition of the Babri Masjid in 1992, President Shankar Dayal Sharma made a presidential reference to the Supreme Court under Article 143(1) of the Constitution seeking its opinion on whether a Hindu structure existed at the site of the mosque before it was built.
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