Tribune News Service
New Delhi, September 20
The Supreme Court will devote an extra hour to the Ayodhya land dispute on Monday. A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi — which is hearing 14 cross-appeals against the September 30, 2010 verdict of the Allahabad High Court equally dividing the disputed land between Ram Lalla, Nirmohi Akhara and Muslims – on Friday told counsel for the parties that it has decided to rise at 5 pm instead of usual 4 pm on September 23.
This is apparently being done in view of the time consumed in by swearing in ceremony of four new judges — Justices Krishna Murari, SR Bhat, V Ramasubramanian and Hrishikesh Roy — who have been appointed to the top court. They were expected to take oath on Monday.
On Friday, senior counsel Rajeev Dhavan argued that the lawsuit filed by deity ‘Ram Lalla’ through a next friend in 1989 was nothing but a “socio-political vehicle” of ‘Ram Janmabhoomi Nyas’ to construct a new temple on the place of Babri masjid.
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