Ayodhya verdict updates: SC defers hearing to 8 Feb 2018 after Sunni board seeks 'reasonable' time to file documents

High security in Ayodhya ahead of Babri Masjid demolition anniversary

#Visuals of high security from #Ayodhya ahead of 25th anniversary of Babri demolition tomorrow pic.twitter.com/HwmAPMqS5j

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) December 5, 2017

Meanwhile, MHA issues advisory to states ahead of  Babri demolition anniversary 

#BREAKING - MHA issues advisory to states ahead of Babri structure demolition anniversary. Asks all states and Union Territories to take steps to maintain communal harmony pic.twitter.com/1vPdQAmOxj

— News18 (@CNNnews18) December 5, 2017

Babri case can’t be decided on ‘aastha’: Asaduddin Owaisi

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MIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the title suit of the Babri Masjid can be decided only on the basis of evidence and not on ‘aastha’ (faith) as the Sangh Parivar is demanding.

Owaisi condemned the statements by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders that the construction of the Ram temple will begin on 18 October, 2018 how they could make such a statement when the title suit was still pending in the Supreme Court.

SC defers hearing to 8 Feb 2018 after Sunni board seeks ‘reasonable’ time to file documents

The Supreme Court has deferred the hearing in the case to 8 February, 2018, after the petitioners asked for reasonable time to translate and file all the relevant documents. The apex court said that this would be the last opportunity for the petitioners to get papers ready and no delays would be allowed after this.  The Supreme Court also directed all advocates on record of the appeals to sit together and ensure that all documents are filed and numbered.

SC defers hearing to 8 February 2018

Sunni Waqf Board requests for a larger bench to hear matter

Ayodhya dispute: Advocates Kapil Sibal, Rajiv Dhawan along with other petitioner counsels want a larger bench of atleast 7 Judges to hear this matter.

— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2017

SC takes on record Shia Waqf Board’s compromise formula

Shia Waqf Board member Wasim Rizvi said that the Shia Waqf Board had worked out a compromise formula, including the building of a temple at disputed site and building of a mosque in Lucknow. 

Supreme Court took on record the compromise formula as suggested by Shia Waqf Board: Wasim Rizvi, Shia Waqf Board #SibalMandirTrap pic.twitter.com/5M9dvnFbiu

— News18 (@CNNnews18) December 5, 2017

Sunni Waqf Board requests time to translate, file all exhibits

Petitioners are pleading in SC for reasonable time to translate, file and serve the copies of all the exhibits and relevant documents, which were filed before the Allahabad High Court bench at Lucknow.

 A look at key litigants who would no longer be part of SC hearing

The key litigants in the 25-year-old Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri mosque dispute will not be part of the final proceedings in the Supreme Court. 

The temple-mosque dispute reached the local court in 1949 when Mahant Ramchandradas Paramhans approached it for allowing ‘darshan and pujan’ of Ramlalla. In the same city, Hashim Ansari, a resident of Kotia locality, about 1.5 kilometre from the disputed site – also approached the court for removing the Lord Rama statue from the Babri mosque.

While Mahant Paramhans died on 20 July 2003, Ansari died in July 2016.

SC halts hearing to take stock of the documents filed and not filed

Congress disassociates itself from Kapil Sibal’s arguments in case

Speaking to CNN-News18, Congress leader Brijesh Kalappa said that Indian National Congress was not a party in the case. He asserted that any arguments made by Congress leader Kapil Sibal are made in his capacity as a professional lawyer. It does not represents the views of the party.

#Watch: Teesta Setalvad’s take on the Babri case

#PeaceInAyodhya Teesta Setalvad speaks on CJP's judicial intervention in the Supreme Court of India on the Babri Ma… https://t.co/MPUnEfCUvr

— Teesta Setalvad (@TeestaSetalvad) December 1, 2017

Activist Teesta Setalvad files intervention; requests to be made party in the case

Activist Teesta Setalvad has requested the Supreme Court to not see the case as a normal land title dispute case and keep in mind the larger bearing of the demolition of Babri Masjid in mind. She also requested to be mande a party in the case.

Meanwhile…. Devotees of Ram pray for favourable verdict

'Hawan' organised in #Ayodhya for construction of Ram temple pic.twitter.com/GadKFXVXZF

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) December 5, 2017

Kapil Sibal, on behalf of Sunni Waqf Board,  requests bench to postpone hearing

Kapil Sibal requested that the hearing should begin after the Lok Sabha polls of 2019, arguing that all exhibits have not been shared with them.

Kapil Sibal, questions how 19,000 page-long document could be filed in such a short time 

Kapil Sibal, who is representing Sunni Waqf Board, raised doubts over ASG Mehta’s claim that all exhibits have been submitted. SIbal asks how more than 19000 pages of documents can be filed in such short time. Sibal also told the apex court that he and other petitioners have not been provided with copies of all relevant documents.

ASG Tushar Mehta rebuts Sibal’s assertions

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta, representing the state of Uttar Pradesh rebuts the assertions made by Sibal. Mehta, told Supreme Court that all the related documents and requisite translation copies are on record.

Kapil SIbal says all exhibits filed in Allahabad HC not filed in Supreme Course

In the Supreme Court, senior advocate Kapil Sibal is reading out the details of exhibits filed by the contesting defendants before the Allahabad High Court. He tells the three-judge bench that all these exhibits are not filled before this court.He submitted, all the pleadings are not complete.

Three-judge constitutional bench hearing the controversial case

A specially constituted bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer will be hearing a total of 13 appeals filed against the 2010 judgement of the Allahabad High Court in four civil suits.

The high court had then ruled a three-way division of the disputed 2.77 acre area at Ayodhya among the parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and the Lord Ram Lalla.

A Three Judge Bench of CJI Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and Abdul Nazeer starts hearing #Ayodhya land dispute case

— Live Law (@LiveLawIndia) December 5, 2017

Senior Advocate and Congress leader Kapil Sibal representing All India Sunni Waqf Board

SC begins hearing 25-yr-old case

Supreme Court begins hearing in #Ayodhya dispute case pic.twitter.com/DefkmOdqrF

— ANI (@ANI) December 5, 2017