Ayodhya case Adjourned till January 2019
New
Delhi: The
Supreme Court on Monday, 29th
October 2018, has adjourned till January the hearing of a bunch of pleas
challenging the Allahabad High Court’s 2010 judgment which ruled that the
disputed land on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya be divided
into three parts.
The court said that the issue will come up before appropriate bench in January. No decision was taken on today on the date of hearing and the composition of the bench.
The court said that the issue will come up before appropriate bench in January. No decision was taken on today on the date of hearing and the composition of the bench.
On September 27, the Supreme Court declined to revisit the observations in its 1994 judgment that a mosque is not integral to Islam, clearing the way for hearing in the politically charged Ayodhya land dispute. In a majority verdict of 2:1, the apex court bench headed by former Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi civil suit has to be decided on the basis of evidence and the previous verdict has no relevance to it.
Justice
Ashok Bhushan, who read out the judgment on behalf of the then Chief Justice of
India and himself, said it has to find out the context in which the five-judge
had delivered the 1994 judgment. However, Justice S Abdul Nazeer, in his lone
dissenting judgment said whether a mosque is integral to Islam has to be
decided considering belief of religion.
The
apex court had on September 27 said that a civil suit on the land dispute would
be heard by a three-judge bench on October 29.
The issue whether a mosque is integral to Islam had come up when the bench was hearing the appeals filed against Allahabad High Court’s 2010 judgment. The three-judge high court bench, in a majority ruling of 2:1, had ordered that the 2.77 acres of land be divided equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.
The 16th century Babri mosque was destroyed in 1992 after lakhs of karsewaks or Right-wing volunteers had demanded that it be brought down, in order to erect a temple to Lord Ram, who they said, had been born right there. The issue has been politically fraught ever since.
The construction of the Ram temple was an important part of BJP’s manifesto ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and also the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections – both of which it won.
The issue whether a mosque is integral to Islam had come up when the bench was hearing the appeals filed against Allahabad High Court’s 2010 judgment. The three-judge high court bench, in a majority ruling of 2:1, had ordered that the 2.77 acres of land be divided equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.
The 16th century Babri mosque was destroyed in 1992 after lakhs of karsewaks or Right-wing volunteers had demanded that it be brought down, in order to erect a temple to Lord Ram, who they said, had been born right there. The issue has been politically fraught ever since.
The construction of the Ram temple was an important part of BJP’s manifesto ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and also the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections – both of which it won.
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