New Delhi, Mar 10: The Supreme Court today deferred by a week hearing on a petition seeking review of its earlier order allowing transfer of trial proceedings of Babri Masjid demolition case from Lucknow to Rae Bareilly, in which Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani and other top politicians are named as accused.
A bench comprising Justice S Rajendra Babu, Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Arun Kumar told counsel for petitioner Mohd Aslam alias Bhure that he should amend the review petition as it was not properly worded.
"Moderate your language. We do not approve of the manner in which you have put it. Make it appropriate and then we will consider the matter," the bench said granting one week's time to the counsel O P Sharma.
The trial proceedings before a special judge at Lucknow was quashed by the Allahabad High Court on a technical ground while giving liberty to the Uttar Pradesh government to rectify the defect.
The Uttar Pradesh government had recently come with a notification transferring the case before the Lucknow special court to Rae Bareilly.
When the same was challenged, the apex court last year had upheld the notification and said that the trial would continue at Rae Bareilly. Against this order, Bhure had filed a review petition which the court had decided to hear.
Bureau Report