Next hearing on Ayodhya Case is January next year: Supreme Court

New Delhi, October 29: Supreme Court today said the civil appeals on the Ram-Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute cases will be listed before an appropriate bench in January next year.

 

This was stated by a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph. The civil appeals arise from the Allahabad High Court's 2010 judgement in the land dispute case. The appropriate bench will fix the schedule with regard to the hearing of appeals in the case.

The appropriate bench will fix the schedule with regard to the hearing of appeals in the case. "We will fix the date of hearing of Ayodhya dispute case before the appropriate bench in January," the CJI said.

Earlier, a three-judge bench, by a 2:1 majority, refused to refer to a five-judge constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam.

The matter had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute. On the 27th of September, the apex court had declined to refer to a five-judge constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgment that a mosque was not integral to Islam. The issue had arisen when the three-judge bench was hearing the appeals filed against the Allahabad High Court's verdict.