Thu. Mar 28th, 2024
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The hearing of the most controversial and religious case started on Thursday in the Supreme Court in Delhi. The court also brought to notice that it would be dealing with the Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid case as a pure land dispute case. The court, however, refused to hear it on a day-to-day basis.

A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S. Abdul Nazeer are looking in the case. The same panel also refused the appellants’ plea for day to day hearing. The ground of rejection of day-to-day hearing was the wait that poor litigants have to face. Court said, “Over 700 poor litigants are waiting for justice, we have to hear them”.

Next hearing of the case has been posted for March 14, before which the parties in the case need to file translated copies of the documents before it. Also it is to note that the Supreme Court will hear the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case as a “pure land dispute.” Misra said that the issue would be heard as a pure land dispute.

The court was hearing a batch of cross-petitions challenging 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict that had divided the disputed Babri Masjid-Ramjanambhoomi site between the Nirmohi Akhara, Lord Ram deity and the Sunni Waqf Board.

The top court was moved challenging the High Court verdict by petitioners M. Siddiqui represented by his legal heirs, the Nirmohi Akhara, the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, Bhagwan Shri Ram Virajman, All India Hindu Mahasabha’s Swami Chakrapani, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, the Akhil Bharatiya Sri Ramjanam Bhoomi Punardhar Samiti and others.

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed the registry to complete all procedural requirements. It also asked the parties to bring on record all documents, exhibits, translations etc for the final arguments.

In total the court is hearing 13 appeals that have been filed against the 2010 judgment of the Allahabad high court in four civil suits. The Allahabad High Court verdict of a three-way division of the disputed 2.77-acre site is being challenged.

The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court had ruled in favour of partitioning the land equally among three parties—the Sunni Waqf Board, Nirmohi Akhara and the ‘Ram Lalla’ (infant Lord Ram), represented by the Hindu Mahasabha.

A civil suit was also filed for deciding the title of the property on which the Babri Masjid stood. It was demolished on 6 December 1992 and a suit has been filed before the high court. The decision, however, stayed in 2011.

The Shia Central Waqf Board of Uttar Pradesh told the Supreme Court in August that it is agreeable to building a mosque in a Muslim-dominated area, at a reasonable distance from the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site.

A special CBI court had on 30 March, framed criminal conspiracy charges against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders. The charges were for the demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya by a mob in 1992. Former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani, union minister Uma Bharti and former union minister Murli Manohar Joshi were arrested

The apex court has commenced its final hearings on the Ayodhya dispute; also, there were heated exchanges between two senior advocates appearing for different parties after one of them suggested they should exchange the synopsis of their likely arguments.

By saket