Mahant Jugal Kishore Shastri , a priest with the Ayodhya-based Saryu Kunj temple , said : " At this stage , if other religious leaders from different parts of the country also come forward and join hands to work out an amicable settlement of the Ayodhya issue , I personally feel that the Ansari 's move would definitely produce the desirable result . " A special three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court 's Lucknow bench Thursday by a majority verdict ruled that the place where the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya stood , before it was razed by Hindu mobs in 1992 , was indeed the birthplace of Hindu god Ram .