{"id":315731,"date":"2019-10-16T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315731"},"modified":"2019-10-16T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:33:00","slug":"ayodhya-case-hearing-concludes-in-supreme-court-verdict-reserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ayodhya-case-hearing-concludes-in-supreme-court-verdict-reserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayodhya case: Hearing concludes in Supreme Court, verdict reserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-305446 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Supreme-Court-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict in the decades old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case in Ayodhya after arguments from all the concerned parties concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court asked all the parties to submit written submissions within in three days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As soon as the arguments in the case began today, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said that the hearing in the case will conclude today by 5 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEnough is enough. This matter is going to be over by 5 pm today,\u201d CJI Gogoi said, after a lawyer asked the top court for more time for arguments in the Ayodhya case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The day to day hearings in the politically sensitive case began on August 6 when the mediation process failed to find an amicable solution to the dispute and October 17 was fixed as the deadline for both the parties to conclude their arguments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court is expected to announce a verdict before the Chief Justice leaves office on November 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The court earlier today witnessed high drama during the hearing as senior advocate Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Muslim sides in the case, tore papers handed to him by counsel representing the Hindu Mahasabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The papers apparently contained a map illustrating the birthplace of Lord Ram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, the Supreme Court resumed daily hearings after a week-long Dussehra break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the hearing in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi \u2013 Babri Masjid land dispute case at Ayodhya entered its final week on Monday, the administration had imposed Section 144 till December 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fourteen pleas have been filed in the apex court against the 2010 Allahabad High Court order, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among the three parties \u2014 the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict in the decades old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case in Ayodhya after arguments from all the concerned parties concluded. The top court asked all the parties to submit written submissions within in three days. As soon as the arguments in the case began today, Chief Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2009,2014,2015],"tags":[5249,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315731"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315732,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315731\/revisions\/315732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}