NEW DELHI: The 70-year-old politically delicate litigation between Hindu and Muslim parties for possession of the two.77-acre Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land moved against final adjudication as the Supreme Court indicated on Friday that a schedule for hearing could most likely be fastened on January 10.
In an anti-climax to the build-up ahead of Friday’s hearing, for which lawyers, guests and reporters thronged court docket number one in massive numbers anticipating an order of importance, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul took not up to 30 seconds to dictate: “Further orders within the topic will be handed on January 10 by the right bench, as may be constituted.”
However, the CJI-led two-judge bench on Friday could not have fastened a schedule for hearing as the SC in its September 29 judgment had rejected a demand by Muslim parties for reference of the pending appeals for adjudication ahead of a five-judge bench and dominated that a three-judge bench used to be competent to decide the land dispute.
This method CJI Ranjan Gogoi will arrange a three-judge bench for hearing the case on January 10.
Two judges who heard temple case will be a part of new bench
It is most likely that two judges of the former SC bench — Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer — would be a part of the new three-judge bench on the Ayodhya land dispute case. The different decide of the erstwhile bench, which gave the September 29 verdict — then CJI Dipak Misra — has since retired. It is unclear whether CJI Gogoi would himself fill the emptiness, or draft in some other decide or represent afresh a three-judge bench on January 10.
On September 29, a bench of then CJI Misra and Justices Bhushan and Nazeer, by a 2-1 majority, had held that appeals against the Allahabad HC’s verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute will be heard by a three-judge bench. Justice Nazeer had leaned in favour of the Ayodhya dispute being sent to a five-judge bench.
There are 16 appeals and petitions by Hindu and Muslim parties difficult the Allahabad HC’s October 2010 verdict, which divided 2.77 acres of Ayodhya land equally between idol Ram Lalla, the Sunni Waqf Board and Nirmohi Akhara.
In an anti-climax to the build-up ahead of Friday’s hearing, for which lawyers, guests and reporters thronged court docket number one in massive numbers anticipating an order of importance, a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul took not up to 30 seconds to dictate: “Further orders within the topic will be handed on January 10 by the right bench, as may be constituted.”
However, the CJI-led two-judge bench on Friday could not have fastened a schedule for hearing as the SC in its September 29 judgment had rejected a demand by Muslim parties for reference of the pending appeals for adjudication ahead of a five-judge bench and dominated that a three-judge bench used to be competent to decide the land dispute.
This method CJI Ranjan Gogoi will arrange a three-judge bench for hearing the case on January 10.
Two judges who heard temple case will be a part of new bench
It is most likely that two judges of the former SC bench — Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer — would be a part of the new three-judge bench on the Ayodhya land dispute case. The different decide of the erstwhile bench, which gave the September 29 verdict — then CJI Dipak Misra — has since retired. It is unclear whether CJI Gogoi would himself fill the emptiness, or draft in some other decide or represent afresh a three-judge bench on January 10.
On September 29, a bench of then CJI Misra and Justices Bhushan and Nazeer, by a 2-1 majority, had held that appeals against the Allahabad HC’s verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute will be heard by a three-judge bench. Justice Nazeer had leaned in favour of the Ayodhya dispute being sent to a five-judge bench.
There are 16 appeals and petitions by Hindu and Muslim parties difficult the Allahabad HC’s October 2010 verdict, which divided 2.77 acres of Ayodhya land equally between idol Ram Lalla, the Sunni Waqf Board and Nirmohi Akhara.
Supreme Court likely to fix schedule for Ayodhya hearing on January 10
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