February 09, 2018: The Supreme Court has said the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid case was purely a “land dispute” and will be dealt with in normal course.
The apex court commenced its final hearings on the Ayodhya dispute yesterday. During the course of an hour-long hearing the court clarified that it was first inclined to hear those who were parties to the dispute in the Allahabad High Court.
It further said those who have tried to wade into the matter before it and seeking impleadment as parties will have to wait as the case before it was a “pure land dispute”.
A special bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was hearing the civil appeals, arising out of 2010 verdict of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, which in a 2 to1 majority ruling, had ordered that the disputed land be partitioned equally among three parties, the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.
The bench also comprised Justices Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer. The court in its order asked the original parties of the title suits to file within two weeks the English translations of documents, exhibits and excerpts from vernacular books, which have been used in the high court.
The bench also expressed its reservation on hearing the matter on day-to-day basis and said, once the matter will start it will go on in normal course.
The bench said it would hear the appeals in the case on the 14th of next month. (AIR News)
