What to Watch Out ForSC hearing on Ram Janmabhoomi- Babri Masjid land dispute case today
Supreme Court hearing on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case is slated to take place on Tuesday. A 5-judge constitution bench will be taking up all the 14 petitions against the Allahabad High Court verdict.
The landmark 2010 Allahabad court judgement had directed that the disputed land be divided into three parts between the Ram Lalla represented by the Hindu Maha Sabha, the Sunni Wakf and the Nirmohi Akhara.
A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul will be presiding over the matter today. Of delays: Previously, the January 10 hearing was postponed as Justice UU Lalit, who was to be a part of the bench, recused himself after petitioners pointed out that he had been a lawyer for Kalyan Singh in a case related to contempt of court.
Kalyan Singh was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh when the Babri Masjid was demolished following severe rioting by right-wing groups.‘Excess’ access: The Centre had on January 29 moved the apex court seeking its nod to return the area around the disputed site back to the original owners – the Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas.
The 67.7 acres of land and the structures around the site were acquired by the Narasimharao-led government back in 1993 in view of the law and order situation.
The Centre’s plea struck controversy as handing over of this ‘excess’ land around the site will incontrovertibly spell the possibility of curtailed access to the land.
Conflict breakdown: The dispute over the land in Ayodhya came to a head in the 1980s when the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other groups opposed the presence of Babri Masjid on the site.
In 1992 came the riots allegedly led by right-wing groups in which the Babri Masjid was razed and 2000 people killed.
In 1994 a three-person bench constituted by the Supreme Court on the issue refused to refer to a five-judge constitution bench saying that a mosque was not integral to Islam.
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