Lucknow, Mar 25: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court, hearing Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title suits, reserved till tomorrow its order on a petition seeking certain directives to the Archaeological Survey of India on the ongoing excavation work in the acquired land in Ayodhya. The special full bench comprising Justice Sudhir Narain, Justice S R Alam and Justice Bhanwar Singh had yesterday asked the contesting parties to file their suggestions for promoting transparency and confidence regarding the ongoing excavation work so that none of them had any grievance. He suggested that either Hari Shankar Dubey or Masood Ali Siddique, both additional district judges at Faizabad, be appointed observer. The board in its application had sought the court's directives to increase the number of Muslim labourers in the excavation job and to bring more transparency in the excavation work.


The court would also pronounce its order tomorrow on the petition filed by one M A Hashim seeking review and recall of its march five order by which the court had ordered excavation at the acquired land to ascertain whether a temple pre-existed the Babri Masjid.

The court also took up the ASI's application seeking an extension of two and a half month for completing the excavation work. An order on the ASI's application is likely tomorrow.

Judicial probe only if police fails to conduct fair inquiry Jammu, Mar 25: Jammu and Kashmir government today said it would consider a judicial probe into alleged security lapses that led to the massacre of 24 Kashmiri Pandits in Nadimarg village if the police failed to conduct an impartial inquiry.

The assurance was given by state finance and law minister Muzaffar Hussain Baig in the state assembly after several members expressed fears that the police probe may not be impartial.
The state government had suspended nine policemen in the aftermath of the massacre and ordered an inquiry into alleged security lapses.
Bureau Report