Supreme Court of India dismisses all 18 review petitions on Ayodhya verdict |
The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed all petitions seeking review of its November 9 verdict in Ayodhya land dispute case. The five-judge bench headed by chief justice S A Bobde and comprising justices D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan, S Abdul Nazeer and Sanjiv Khanna, which took these review pleas for consideration in-chamber, rejected them after finding no merits. The top court considered the review plea of only those who were parties to the four lawsuits filed initially in the vexatious dispute. There were 18 review petitions, of which nine have been filed by parties who were part of the earlier litigation and the other nine were filed by "third parties". The apex court refused to entertain nine review plea filed by those who were not party to the original litigation. With the rejection of these review petitions, the consequential request of parties for an open court hearing on these pleas also get dismissed. A 5-judge bench, headed by the then chief justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, had in a unanimous verdict on November 9 decreed the entire 2.77 acre disputed land in favour of deity `Ram Lalla` and also directed the Centre to allot a five-acre plot to Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque in Ayodhya.
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