Gauri said in her application that as Advani's special assistant she had looked after his New Delhi constituency from where he contested and won election to the Lok Sabha.
Gauri said in the application, "The applicant (Gauri) at that time had deep faith in the ideology which Shri L K Advani used to propagate and bonafidely believed whatever Advani used to tell her as gospel truth."
According to Gauri, on or around November 28, 1991, an application was moved in the Supreme Court seeking permission to carry out a symbolic kar seva in Ayodhya.
Anticipating favourable orders from the Supreme Court, Advani decided to start another rath yatra from Varanasi to mobilise kar sevaks. Gauri said she and Advani's wife Kamala accompanied Advani to Lucknow on the morning of November 30, 1992, when all of them left for Varanasi.
"Before the start of the rath yatra (on December 1, 1992), Shri Vinay Katiyar came to meet Shri L K Advani. The applicant (Gauri) was also present in this meeting. It was in this meeting Shri L K Advani and Shri Vinay Katiyar, in the presence of the applicant, conspired to demolish the Babri mosque. Shri L K Advani told Shri Vinay Katiyar that the ultimate aim of the Rath Yatra... is not only to do kar seva and appease Hindu sentiment but also to garner votes and come to power at the Centre," Gauri said in her application, alleging that Advani told Katiyar that, "the movement to build the Ram Temple at Babri mosque had to be taken to its logical end, ie coming t