Mumbai, July 29 -- Holding that a citizen expressing the view that the Babri Masjid should not have been demolished cannot be branded anti-national, the Bombay High Court has set aside externment orders, which ban a person from a particular district or locality, issued by the Mumbai Police against two functionaries of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI).

"According to them, Babri Masjid should not have been demolished, that is their perception! How is it anti-national? That cannot be anti-national! That is their perception! Everybody has got right," Justice Madhav Jamdar remarked, adding that a citizen is entitled to hold such a view.

One of the three police complaints underlying the externment orders had been linked to a protes...