15.12.10

Ayodhya verdict goes to SC

The Sunni Wakf Board of Uttar Pradesh moved the Supreme Court challenging the controversial verdict of Allahabad High Court dividing the 2.77 acres of disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land in equal parts between Hindus, Muslims and Nirmohi Akhara.
“We have challenged the verdict on the ground that the high court has erred both in law and facts in holding that the land over which Babri Masjid stood was the place of birth of Ram,” the Board said after its counsel filed the petition in the apex court. Exactly a month ago, the first appeal against the landmark verdict was filed in SC by Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (JUH), which was plaintiff No. 2 before the HC. JUH, which had filed the original suit in 1961 before the HC claiming ownership over the disputed area then housing the disputed structure, in its petition through advocate Anis Suhrawardy assailed the Allahabad HC verdict on the ground that by ordering partition of the area, it travelled beyond the pleadings of the parties as none of them had argued for it. “The permission to perform puja cannot change the undisputed character of the structure, which has been consistently recorded in official records as a mosque,” JUH had said.
On the other hand, the second petition filed by the legal guardian of the idol, Ram Lalla, had claimed that the entire land should be given to him for utilizing it for the worship of the idol. The JUH, however, had said, “The HC has re-written history with its judgment by substituting its role from an adjudicatory body in law to that of the role of historian.”

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