Indian Muslims anxious as court prepares to rule on destroyed mosque

Nritya Gopal Das, who heads a Hindu religious group demanding the construction of a temple on a disputed religious site, speaks to his followers at a temple in Ayodhya, India, October 21, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

AYODHYA, India (Reuters) - In the Indian town of Ayodhya, minority Muslims are feeling under siege as they await a Supreme Court ruling on a centuries-old religious dispute that has cast a shadow over their relations with the majority Hindu community.

After a tangle of legal cases, the Supreme Court in August decided to hear arguments every day in an effort to resolve the dispute over what should be built on the ruins of the 16th-century Babri Masjid, destroyed by a Hindu mob in 1992.