{"id":286326,"date":"2018-03-29T19:16:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=286326"},"modified":"2018-03-29T19:16:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:46:48","slug":"ayodhya-case-presented-as-property-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ayodhya-case-presented-as-property-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayodhya case presented as \u2018property dispute\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Ram Mandir-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Babri-Masjid-demolition-case.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-281023 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Babri-Masjid-demolition-case-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Babri Masjid demolition case\" width=\"366\" height=\"228\" data-id=\"281023\" \/><\/a> dispute in Ayodhya was purely a &#8220;property dispute&#8221;, Hindu religious bodies have told the Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The issue of political or religious senstivities cannot be a ground to refer the matter to a larger bench, they added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer was told by senior advocate Harish Salve, appearing for original plaintiff Gopal Singh Visharad who was among the first to file a civil suit in the case way back in 1950, that there was no need to refer the matter to a larger bench since a three-judge bench was already seized of it,\u00a0\u00a0media reports said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Salve reportedly said that as per the prevalent practices and traditions of the apex court, the appeals against orders passed by a full bench of any high court have always come up for adjudication before a three-judge bench of the top court, instead of a two-judge bench.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Senior advocate K Parasaran, appearing for the deity, Ram Lalla Virajman, also supported Salve&#8217;s arguments and said the matter should be heard by a three-judge bench only, reported PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Senior advocate Raju Ramachandaran, appearing for the Muslim bodies and petitioner M Siddiq, was quoted as saying that looking at the sensitivities of the matter and its sheer importance, the case should be referred to a larger bench.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The hearing would continue on\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1074963438\">May 15<\/span>, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Ram Mandir- dispute in Ayodhya was purely a &#8220;property dispute&#8221;, Hindu religious bodies have told the Supreme Court The issue of political or religious senstivities cannot be a ground to refer the matter to a larger bench, they added. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":281023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}