Senior BJP leaders LK Advani, Union Minister Uma Bharti and Murli Manohar Joshi faced a court in Lucknow today in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case and were charged with criminal conspiracy. They had argued that they had no role in the mosque razing and had tried to stop it, but their discharge petition was rejected; The Madras High Court has put on hold the Centre's restrictions on sale and purchase of cattle for slaughter for four weeks and has asked it to respond within that time on why its order should not be scrapped; Early this month, say investigators, an ISIS operative called Abdul Rasheed created at least two WhatsApp groups. He added about 200 people in Kerala to each of them and began transmitting messages, several of them in audio, urging them to join the Syria-based terror group. NDTV has accessed the audio messages - 20 of them in Malayalam were sent on WhatsApp and the Telegram app; all this and more in our news wrap of the day.
