Muslim group files review plea against Ayodhya Verdict |
Almost 23 days after the Supreme Court of India delivered its verdict on the decades long Ram-Janmabhoomi Babri Masjid title suit case, first review petition was filed in the court on Monday. Maulana Syed Ashhad Rashidi, a legal heir of original Ayodhya land dispute litigant, filed a review petition in the Supreme Court against its ruling in favour of the Ram temple at the disputed site. This is also the first review petition filed by a Muslim party against the verdict that had ordered a 5-acre plot be given to the Sunni Board by the government because the community had been wronged more than once. Rashidi, in his request to the Supreme Court to revisit its verdict, said the judgment by the five-judge bench had acknowledged “few of the several illegalities” committed by the Hindu Parties but “proceeded to condone the said illegal acts and awarded the disputed site to the very party which based its claims on nothing but a series of illegal acts”. Rashidi has submitted that he was “conscious of the sensitive nature of the issue and understands the need to put a quietus to the issue”. The petition said, “However, it is submitted that there can be no peace without justice.” A five-judge bench led by former chief justice Ranjan Gogoi had last month cleared the construction of Ram Mandir in its verdict in favour of Ram Lalla Virajman.
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