New Delhi, Dec 12 (UNI) The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed 18 review petitions, imbued with religious and communal colour, against its historic judgement, which handed over the disputed site at Ayodhya to a trust to construct a grand Ram temple and allotment of a separate five-acre plot for a mosque.
A Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde-headed bench also comprising Justices SA Nazeer, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna held that there was no ground for its intervention as the review petitions lacked merit.
On 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid was destroyed by kar sewaks. A subsequent land title case was lodged in the Allahabad High Court,which on 30 September 2010 ruled that the 2.77 acres under dispute be divided into three equal parts, to the Ram Lalla represented by the Hindu Maha Sabha, Sunni Waqf Board, and the Nirmohi Akhara, which claimed servitor rights.
The High Court ruled that a temple structure predated the mosque at the same site.
Subsequently, from August to October 2019, a five-judge Supreme Court bench heard the dispute.
On 9 November 2019, the top court, headed by then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, ruled that the land belonged to the government based on tax records.
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