Section 149 of the IPC states: ‘…every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.’
Shortly after a special CBI court acquitted all the surviving 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case last week, several journalists and academicians reminded me of an essay I had written for India Legal magazine in December 2017 which possibly has more relevance today than the time it was written