evidence: Story of the iconic monkey image of Ram Mandir movement 'Karsevaks' broke through barricades and put up saffron flags atop the Babri Masjid on October 30, 1990. After security personnel forced them away, a monkey sat on the central dome of the mosque, which prevented one of the flags from being removed. Here's revisiting that iconic image. [...] Photojournalist Pramod Pushkarna, now 76, says he made several trips to Ayodhya during the Ram Mandir Movement days. He says people were calling the monkey "Hanuman ka avatar". [...] The reference to monkeys in the Ayodhya Mandir case can also be found in the autobiography of KM Pandey, who, as the Faizabad district judge on February 1, 1986, ordered that the doors of the Babri Masjid be opened for devotees to the ‘darshan’ of Ram Lalla idol.