Ram Temple Hearing : SC Says An ‘Appropriate Bench’ On January 10th Will Fix Date Of Hearing

Supreme Court has said that an “appropriate bench” on January 10 will fix the date of hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land title dispute case.

“Further orders in the matter will be passed on January 10 by the appropriate bench, as may be constituted,” said a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul.

A three-member bench is to be set up for hearing the matter on a batch of petitions.

No sooner the matter came up for hearing, the CJI said it is the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case and went ahead with passing the order.

Senior advocates Harish Salve and Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for different parties, did not even get the opportunity to make any submission.

Now, a three-member bench will be set up for taking forward the Ayodhya land dispute case in which as many as 14 appeals were filed against the 2010 Allahabad high court judgement, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land be partitioned equally among the three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.

The apex court on October 29 had fixed the matter in the first week of January before the “appropriate bench”.