The apex court will be heading for a summer break that will last for more than two months.
The detailed hearing in the cross suits filed by different organisations on the contentious issue of ownership of Ram Janam Bhomi-Babri mosque at Ayodhya may be deferred till July as the Supreme Court is heading for summer break between May 14 and July 4.
In the meanwhile, the apex court would take up the petitions and file the hearing schedule. It may also direct the parties to complete the pleadings and such translated documents relating to the revenue records.
Several petitions filed by various Muslim and Hindu groups have vehemently challenged the Allahabad high court verdict of September 30, 2010 that divided the 2.77 acre disputed site into three parts between Muslims, Hindus and the Nirmohi Akhara.
A bench of justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodha would have before it on Monday the appeals filed by Nirmohi Akhara, Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, Jamait Ulama-I-Hind and Sunni Central Wakf Board. A petition has also been filed on behalf of Bhagwan Ram Virajman (seated Baby Ram), the legal entity.
The Wakf Board and Jamait Ulama-I-Hind have sought quashing of the HC verdict. They felt it’s based on faith and not on legal evidence. They have contested the HC’s view that the disputed building stood at the place of birth of Ram.
“It was nobody’s case in the high court that the Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara were in joint possession of the disputed premises. The claims of the three sets of plaintiffs were mutually exclusive in the sense each set of plaintiffs claimed the entire property as its own and no one sought a decree for partition of the property,” the appeals said
On the other hand, the Hindu Mahasabha has questioned a part of the verdict which ruled that one third of the disputed site be handed over to Muslims. It sought the apex court’s endorsement of the September 30 minority verdict by Justice Dharam Veer Sharma who ruled for handing over the entire land to Hindus.
However, the majority view remained that the disputed property was the site of Janm Bhumi of Ram Chandra Ji and Hindus in general had the right to worship Charan, Sita Rasoi, other idols and other objects of worship that existed there.
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