Chief litigant in Babri Masjid case, Mahant Bhaskar Das, passes away

Faizabad: Chief of Ayodhya's Nirmohi Akhada and oldest litigant in Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid case, Mahant Bhaskar Das, passed away on Saturday morning. He was 88.

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Das was the chief claimant of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and had filed the claim in 1959.

After a recent cardiac arrest, he had been admitted in Faizabad's Harshan Heart institute four days back, and breathed his last at 3:00 a.m.

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The oldest litigant claiming for Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, Hashim Ansari passed away in July last year. He too has been suffering from a heart ailment. (ANI)

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