With the Supreme Court scheduled to deliver its verdict in the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid case next week, Ayodhya is under a security blanket.
Scenes from ground zero, Ayodhya.
Devotees look at a model of the proposed Ram temple that Hindu groups want to build at the disputed Ram Janambhoomi/Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya, in this photograph taken October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Policemen check a scooter at a security barricade on the road leading to the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid site, in this picture taken October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A man walks past the pillars that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad says will be used to build a Ram temple in this photograph taken on October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A devotee looks at an exhibition about the history of the demolished Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, in this picture taken on October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Mohammed Shahid, grandson of Haji Abdul Gaffar, the last imam of the Babri mosque, in front of a sawmill which was burnt down by mobs after the Babri Masjid demolition, in Ayodhya, in this photograph taken on October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A wall with the inscription of the Ramayana seen inside a temple in Ayodhya, in this photograph taken October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
Zaibunissa, whose husband was killed in the riots following the Babri Masjid demolition on December 6, 1992, with her son Mohammed Shahid in Ayodhya, in this picture taken on October 22, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
A devotee takes a selfie with the pillars that the VHP says will be used to build a Ram temple in this picture taken on October 21, 2019. Photograph: Danish Siddiqui/Reuters