Senior Advocate Zafaryab Jilani who argued Ram Janmabhoomi case passes away
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New Delhi: All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) secretary, Senior Advocate Zafaryab Jilani passed away at Nishatganj Hospital in Lucknow on Wednesday.
The 73-year-old Jilani was suffering from brain haemorrhage after complications arising from a head injury suffered a year ago.
Jilani, as a convenor of the Babri Masjid Action Committee, had argued the Ram Janmabhoomi case before the Supreme Court.
Jilani had also served as an Additional Advocate General (AAG) of Uttar Pradesh.
In February 1986, following the Faizabad district judge’s order to open the locks on the mosque, the Babri Masjid Action Committee was formed with the intent to start a campaign in support of the shrine and take on the rising wave of Hindutva. Jilani became the convener of the committee. Since then, Jilani’s has been a life dedicated entirely to the cause of Babri Masjid.
The mosque was demolished on December 6, 1992 by a mob of right-wing activists, amid allegations of larger conspiracies being hatched by the-then Kalyan Singh-led BJP Government in the State and “suspicious silence” of the Congress Government at the Centre. It also triggered a role reversal for Jilani.
The advocate, who had been more of an activist in the pre-demolition era, spent most of his time in the black robes after it.
In 2019, when the land dispute case was finally settled by Supreme Court, Jilani had said he had no regrets about having dedicated so much time to the case, which may have been rewarding in terms of name and fame, but surely came at the cost of bigger prospects of a profitable practice.
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