disputed

However, the judge disputed several of the claims made by the defence teams and rejected their calls for suspended sentences.

This chain of events is not disputed by other figures in government.

A five-judge bench, which included Justice Chandrachud, ruled in 2019 that the demolition was illegal, but still gave the disputed land to Hindus and a separate site for the mosque to be built.

Jameel Jaffer, the founding director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, for instance, disputed Cole’s claims, citing the Obama administration’s continued reliance on illegal and extralegal policies that Bush’s aggressive actions had already put in play — among them warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention and the military commissions to try prisoners at Guantánamo.

That figure is disputed by historians, however.