SC denies sending Ayodhya case to a larger bench in a 2:1 judgement: As it happened
The SC will begin hearing the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi title dispute from October 29.
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The Supreme Court in a majority judgement on Thursday said that the apex court observations in the 1994 case, which said that a mosque was not integral to Islam, will not be sent to a larger bench for reconsideration. The SC was giving a verdict on a batch of pleas by Muslim groups who had sought reconsideration of the observations.
While Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Ashok Bhushan gave a majority opinion that the observations in paragraph 52 of Ismail Faruqi judgment that mosque was not an integral part of Islam have to be understood in the context of land acquisition proceedings, Justice Abdul Nazeer dissented.
Ismail Faruqui had held that a religious place cannot claim immunity from compulsory acquisition. SC bench on Thursday said that the observations on offering namaz in mosque was made in that context.
The SC will begin hearing the Babri Masjid-Ram Janambhoomi title dispute from October 29.
Muslim groups had argued that the "sweeping" observation of the apex court in the verdict needed to be reconsidered by a five-judge bench as "it had and will have a bearing" on the Babri Masjid-Ram Temple land dispute case.
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