Supreme Court adjourns hearing on Ayodhya case till January 2019
Although the hearing is likely to begin in January next year, the date will be fixed by an appropriate bench, the Supreme Court said.
New Delhi, October 29, 2018:
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Monday said the civil appeals on the Ram-Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute cases will be listed before an appropriate bench in January 2019.
This was stated by a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph.
The civil appeals arise from the Allahabad High Court judgement in the land dispute case, The appropriate bench will fix the schedule with regard to the hearing of appeals in the case.
“We will fix the date of hearing of Ayodhya dispute case before the appropriate bench in January,” the CJI said.
Earlier, a three-judge bench, by a 2:1 majority, refused to refer to a five-judge constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam.
The matter had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute.
Last month, the court had declined to refer to a five-judge Constitution Bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgment that a mosque was not integral to Islam which had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute.
Justice Ashok Bhushan, who had penned the judgment for himself and the Chief Justice of India, had said it has to find the context in which the five-judge Bench had delivered the 1994 verdict.
