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Supreme
Court stays 'strange' Ayodhya verdict
Monday May 09, 2011 02:43:39 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Stating that it was a "strange and surprising" order, the Supreme
Court Monday stayed the September 2010 Allahabad High Court
judgment dividing the site of the razed Babri Mosque in Ayodhya
into three parts.
"It is a rare judgement whose operation has to be stayed," the
apex court bench of Justices Aftab Alam and R.M. Lodha said about
the Sep 30 ruling of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court
that split the site of the Babri Masjid amongst the Sunni Waqf
Board, the Nirmohi Akhada and a Hindu party, 'Ram Lalla'.
By directing the partition of the disputed site, the high court
has given an "entirely new dimension to the case", the apex court
said.
"It was a strange and surprising order that was not prayed for by
any of the parties and cannot be allowed to remain," it said.
While ordering the stay, the bench said there was unanimity at
least on the issue of the staying the operation of the high court
verdict.
While admitting the appeals by all the parties, the Supreme Court
said "status quo as a disputed site will remain as directed by the
constitution bench of the apex court by its verdict of Jan 7, 1993
and that of March 13-14, 2002".
The apex court had allowed worship at the makeshift temple at
Ayodhya and restrained all the parties from carrying out any
religious activities on the 67.703 acres of land acquired by the
central government around the disputed site.
Besides dividing the land in Ayodhya, the centre of a 125-year-old
dispute that has seen repeated clashes between Hindus and Muslims,
the Allahabad High Court had also said that the site of the 16th
century Babri Mosque was indeed the birthplace of the Hindu god
Ram. The mosque was demolished by Hindu mobs on Dec 6, 1992,
triggering nationwide riots.
A three-judge bench, comprising a Muslim and two Hindus, had ruled
by majority that a Ram temple had been destroyed to build the
Babri mosque in Ayodhya in the 16th century and so the mosque
violated Islamic tenets.
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