About the Evidence:
This part contains the written evidence submitted to the court
during the hearings in November 1985, on behalf of the religious
expert witness, Maulana Hafiz Sher Mohammad. This evidence has
been extensively mentioned in the Judgment, and the quotations
from it given there will be found in this Part, with full references.
The written evidence was also presented orally in court, and in
addition some purely oral evidence was also given (which is not
recorded here).
The written evidence was in the form of individual documents,
mostly called Sections, each dealing with one issue. In
this publication, a brief Translators Note has been
prefixed to each Section, to explain to readers the purpose and
relevance of the evidence contained therein. Without such explanation,
it would be difficult for those unfamiliar with the case to follow
the evidence.
We have adopted the convention, within quotations, that whenever
any additional explanatory words were necessary, these are given
within square brackets, thus: [ ... ]. The use
of round brackets, i.e. ( ... ), within a translated
quotation is to show the author's original words, where this was
necessary in clarification of the translation.
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