As India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares to open a controversial Hindu temple the place a centuries-old mosque as soon as stood, Hindu teams have gained vital court docket rulings prior to now week on different disputed spiritual websites.

India is making in depth preparations for Modi to inaugurate the Ram temple in Ayodhya on Jan. 22, fulfilling an election promise made by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to its Hindu voters. The spiritual website had been the supply of a bitter dispute between Hindus and Muslims for many years and sparked lethal riots within the Nineteen Nineties after the Sixteenth-century Babri mosque was demolished there. The Supreme Court in 2019 finally awarded the land to Hindus, a few of whom consider the positioning is the birthplace of the god Ram.