Monday's Supreme Court order staying the September 30, 2010, verdict and orders of the Allahabad High Court means that the Hindu and the Muslim litigants arguing over the disputed religious and historic Babri Masjid site will have to make their case from scratch, according to lawyers involved.
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- A shopkeeper at a stall selling religious material in Ayodhya.
The site, in the north Indian town of Ayodhya, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, is the site of a 16th century mosque, the Babri Masjid, and is also believed by Hindus to be the birthplace of the god Ram.
"We are back to square one," said Vivek Sharma, a lawyer representing the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (All India Hindu Assembly), one of 18 parties who have appealed to the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court's verdict, which proposed splitting the disputed site, with two parts to go to Hindu litigants and one part to a Muslim group.
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