Supreme Court says Ayodhya arguments likely to be finished by October 18

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Supreme Court has said that all arguments in the Ayodhya land dispute is likely to be completed by October 18.

HIGHLIGHTS

• SC has said all arguments in the Ayodhya land dispute is likely to finish by October 18
• CJI Ranjan Gogoi said the court will work extra hours if required to meet the deadline
• CJI Gogoi told the mediation panel that they can come up with their own report

 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the final arguments in the Ayodhya land dispute case is likely to be completed by October 18. Looking at the schedule of the arguments, the court has said that the case hearings may finally end by October 18.

This came after all sides submitted their schedule of presenting their arguments on the 26th day of the day-to-day hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute case.

After a submission of tentative schedule by both Senior Advocates CS Vaidyanathan and Rajeev Dhavan, CJI Ranjan Gogoi said that hearing of the arguments would likely be completed by October 18.

CJI Ranjan Gogoi said, "Let us all make a combined effort to conclude the hearing by October 18." He also added that the court may extend the hearing by one hour and also sit on Saturdays if required and finish the hearings.

 

The court also made it clear that the Ayodhya proceedings will still remain confidential.

CJI Gogoi has also said that day-to-day proceedings in the Ayodhya matter will continue as the hearing has reached an advanced stage.

Speaking on a letter submitted by the Justice Kalifullah-led mediation panel, the court said, "If parties desire to settle the matter, including by resorting to mediation panel, they may do so and place the settlement before the court."

The five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said, "simultaneously the mediation process can go on along with the hearing, which is going on in Supreme Court and if an amicable settlement is reached by it, the same can be filed before the SC."

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Supreme Court Targets October 18 To Complete Ayodhya Hearings: 10 Points

 

Here are top 10 developments in this big story:

1. "If parties are desirous of settling the matter through mediation, they can do so," the Supreme Court said on Day 26 of the daily hearings in India's most politically charged dispute.
2. The judgement has to be delivered before Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi retires on November 17, or the entire process will go into re-start mode."Let us make a joint effort to conclude the same by October 18," said the Chief Justice, adding that if necessary, the court could even hear the case for one extra hour each day, or on Saturdays.
3. Litigants had been asked yesterday to submit a schedule for their arguments. The court, after going through their skeds, held out the hope that the arguments could be completed by October 18.
4. As for mediation, if the court-appointed three-member panel submits a consensus report, then it will be taken up in open court and verified, according to sources.
5. But two key litigants in the title suit have more or less dismissed mediation as the solution. Mahant Dinendra Das, the chief of the Nirmohi Akhada, said: "The panel talks were going on earlier.  But it wasn't successful. Now things have moved to the Supreme court. It's a matter of a few weeks. To go back to the panel (mediation) is not a wise decision.  
6. On this, a rival litigant, Iqbal Ansari, agrees. "We want the court to settle this matter. We do not want to complicate it. We don't want to dwell on the past. The present situation is that the court is hearing it and the court will decide," he said.
7. Last month, the court had started daily hearings after deciding that mediation had failed to produce a solution. "Mediation didn't result in any kind of settlement," Chief Justice Gogoi had said in a six-minute hearing.
8. The mediation panel comprising former Supreme Court judge FM Kalifulla, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu had started consultations in March. The court was told that the panel "did its best to arrive at a consensus" in consultation with various petitioners but "some parties" did not agree.
9. The dispute involves the site in Ayodhya where the 16th-century Babri mosque stood before it was razed in 1992 by Hindu activists who believe that it was built on the ruins of an ancient temple marking the birthplace of Lord Ram. In riots following the mosque demolition, 2,000 people died across the country.
10. Fourteen appeals have been filed in the top court against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among the three parties - the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla (infant Ram).The Constitution bench gave mediation a shot despite objections from petitioners like the Uttar Pradesh government, saying mediation may help in "healing relations".

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Ramudu place lo ramudiki gudi kattadaaniki yenteha ee delay lu court verdict lu chassss

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The Ayodhya case hearings must be completed by October 18, the Supreme Court said today, asserting that if the petitioners want, they can settle the temple-mosque dispute through mediation. The court also said daily hearings will continue in the case.

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Ayodhya Double-development Hailed By Dr Swamy: 'Benefits Muslims Too'

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• BJP MP Dr. Subramanian Swamy has said that the verdict in the Ayodhya dispute will be declared bu Nov 17
• He added that failing to do so, the matter will have to start afresh, as CJI Ranjan Gogoi will retire on Nov 17
• He added that Muslim leaders had said that they will be accused of taking bribes if they settled.

 

Calling the Supreme Court's decision to set a deadline for the Ayodhya dispute a good development, BJP MP Dr. Subramanian Swamy, on Wednesday has said that the verdict will be soon, in conversation with Republic TV. Explaining that CJI Ranjan Gogoi's retirement date is November 17, Dr. Swamy believes that the verdict will be prior to that. He added that failing to do so, the matter will have to start afresh. He explained that the CJI cannot be on the bench after his retirement date.

Ayodhya verdict before Nov 17

" It should happen before November 17 because the Chief Justice retires on that day. If the Chief Justice retires, he can't sit on the bench meaning that the bench can't continue. A new bench will have to be constituted and will have to start all over again. What he means when he said 'finish all arguments by October 18', is that the Court wants to give judgement before the CJI retires," he said.

 

Muslims will benefit from SC development

Talking about the benefits the Muslim parties will reap, he said that the leaders had confided in him the failure to reach an amicable settlement. He added that Muslim leaders had said that they will be accused of taking bribes if they settled. He claimed that the current date has been set due to his plea in 2017. He reminded that such a date had not been set prior to this, since Allahabad HC's verdict in 2010.  

"It is a very good development. It will benefit the Muslim parties too as the leaders had confided in me prior to the mediation committee was set up. The Muslim leaders had said it was very difficult to come to an amicable settlement, as we will be accused of taking money from the Hindus. They wanted the court to decide and I got the date fixed which had not been fixed since 2010 when the Ayodhya High court had given its verdict. The date was fixed based on the petition I filed in 2017," he added.

 

Muslim parties claim vs. Hindus' claim

Elaborating on the issue of contention, he reiterated that gravity of the Hindus claims on the Ram Janmabhoomi. Comparing Muslims' propriety rights to Hindus' fundamental rights, he said that Hindus' claim was superior. When asked about if mediation is possible in the issue, he said it was, only if the Muslims claim some other land. He said no mediation will result in the Hindus' giving up their claim to Ram Janmabhoomi.

"The issue today is that can the Sunni Waqf board claim that their right is superior to those of the Hindus?  Their (Waqf board) claim is that the land belongs to us. We have a propriety to it. This is an ordinary right, but what we Hindus state that it is our fundamental right under article 25, giving us the right to pray on the land where faith tells us Ram was born," he said.

He added, "The settlement cannot agree to give up the land (in the mediation). A discussion can be held if the Waqf board agrees to shift their claim to some other land. If they want to build a Masjid elsewhere, we can find a way as to how to bear the cost of construction. We can figure out the road to be built and so on. But no mediation will result in the Hindus giving up our fundamental right."

 

Ayodhya arguments to conclude by October 18

Earlier in the day, the CJI-led SC bench on Wednesday has asked all parties involved to make efforts to complete the final arguments by October 18. The Supreme Court has finally set a  deadline to the long-fought case, after starting daily hearings on August 6. Agreeing to the Supreme Court's demands, parties have submitted their tentative schedules before the bench, according to sources. Sources further report that the Supreme Court has further allowed the mediation process requested by the parties to proceed parallel to the SC's daily hearing of the appeals. The Ayodhya verdict is also expected prior to Nov 17, 2019, as the CJI Ranjan Gogoi is set to retire on the same date.

Mediation to continue parallelly

Sources report that CJI Ranjan Gogoi has announced that the daily hearings on the Ayodhya dispute will continue as per schedule, as they are at an advanced stage. He has further stated that the terms of settlement and process of meditation would be confidential, as per sources. While the SC has allowed mediation to proceed parallelly, the CJI has reportedly stated that if the mediation process reaches a settlement, then the settlement is to be placed before the apex Court. This development comes two days after Ayodhya mediation committee had sought the apex court's permission to resume mediation talks, while the day-to-day hearing of the case was in progress.

 

Ayodhya hearing in SC

In a massive setback to the Ayodhya land dispute, the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on August 2 declared that the Ayodhya mediation panel headed by Justice FM Kalifulla has failed. The court then began day-to-day hearings from August 6. Earlier, the three-member Ayodhya mediation panel submitted its status report to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover, complying with the orders of the apex court earlier on July 11. The apex court then declared that mediation has failed.  

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I highly doubt if they give one sided judgement eg like ram mandir is original one and construct temple or there is no precedence for temple & please construct mosque Ani 

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Calling @prasadr precedence for temple undaa??

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CJI Sets October 18 Target to Conclude Arguments in Ayodhya Case, Says Willing to Work Extra Hours

The Ayodhya Bench in the Supreme Court is headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, who retires on November 17.

File photo of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. (PTI)

New Delhi: The possibility of a verdict in the protracted Ram janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute by mid-November brightened up on Wednesday with the Supreme Court fixing the deadline of October 18 for completion of arguments in the case.

The Ayodhya Bench in the Supreme Court is headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, who retires on November 17. If the judgment is not delivered before his retirement, the entire matter would have to be heard afresh.

 

 

 

On Wednesday, the CJI, after consulting the lawyers from both the sides, said he is hopeful that arguments can conclude by October 18.

“Let us all make joint efforts to complete it by October 18. If the need arises, we are ready to sit on Saturdays and some extra hours on weekdays to complete it," observed Justice Gogoi.

The timeline comes a day after the Constitution Bench had sought to know from all parties in the case about a tentative time frame for completing their arguments.

Senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, who has been leading the submissions on behalf of the Muslim side, said they would complete the arguments by the end of next week and will then take a day or two to argue their own civil suit.

From the Hindu side, Ram Lalla Virajman's lawyers said they will take two days while other parties this side said a couple of days more should be enough to complete their arguments.

Subsequently, the five judges on the Bench had a brief discussion among themselves and the deadline of October 18 was arrived at.

About a letter written by the mediation panel to the Bench, the court said parties are free to resort to settlement and if any settlement can be reached, it can be placed before it.

The panel had written to the Bench after the UP Sunni Waqf Board chairman wrote to the panel for resumption of mediation to give it one more shot. However, the Bench made it clear that the entire settlement proceedings will remain confidential as before.