The Supreme Court on Thursday once again stressed on the need to complete arguments in the Ayodhya land dispute case by October 18. “If arguments can’t get over by October 18, there won’t be extra day,” Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi told both sides arguing the case.
The CJI said the bench will have only four weeks to write the judgment and it will be a “miracle” if the court delivers the judgment in four weeks.
Justice Gogoi retires as the CJI on November 17.
The five-judge bench of the top court had last week set October 18 target to complete hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land title case. The CJI had called for a joint effort from all parties.
The bench started holding daily hearings from August to fast-track the case that has been pending for decades after a SC appointed mediation committee failed to develop a consensus among the parties for a solution.
More than a dozen appeals were filed against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among the three parties—the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.
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