Bhartiya Janta Party Leader Subramanian Swamy on Moved to the Apex Court for an urgent listing of his plea seeking enforcement of Fundamental right to offer to pray at disputed land at Ayodhya. Swamy, while mentioning the matter for urgent listing, told the bench that his plea should be heard separately.
However, the CJI Ranjan Gogoi said, “You be present here tomorrow. We will see”.
Supreme Court 5 Judge Bench will take up the Title Dispute Issue in the Top Court on February 26, tomorrow.
The Top Court had last year disallowed Swamy from intervening in the Ayodhya land dispute case and made it clear that only the parties to original lawsuits would be allowed contest.
However, the bench had considered Swamy’s submission that he had not sought to intervene in the matter but had filed a separate writ petition seeking enforcement of his fundamental right to worship at the birthplace of Lord Ram in Ayodhya.
READ: SC asks Swamy to move his plea to worship in Ayodhya for afterwards
‘Today SC heard me briefly on the urgency to list my WP (Writ Petition) on Ram Temple. The court said that after the judgment on whether to re-examine the earlier settled view (of Mosque not being an essential part of Islam) is given, I can ask for a date. Fair enough’ Swamy had said last year in a tweet.
On Monday, Subramanian Swamy sought urgent listing of his plea for the enforcement of fundamental right to worship.
The Top Court is slated to hear Ram Janmabhoomi and Babri Masjid Issue from February 26. The Ayodhya Dispute title case deals with who owns the controversial land where Babri Masjid once stood and where Lord Ram Believed to have been born.
The Allahabad High Court in 2010 verdict had divided the land between three petitioners — two favoured building a Ram Mandir at the Ayodhya site while the third wanted the Babri Masjid rebuilt.
All the petitioners appealed against the Allahabad High Court verdict. The Supreme Court will now begin hearing those appeals.
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi had on Jan 25 reconstituted the 5 Judge Bench and inducted lone Muslim Judge S Abdul Nazir. The new Bench was necessitated after Justice U U Lalit recused from the case on January 10. This was followed by Justice N V Ramana withdrawing citing personal reasons. Judge UU Lalit on January 10 left the case saying ‘He was a lawyer in the case earlier’.
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