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| Indian court to deliver Babri mosque verdict tomorrow |
| 2010-09-29 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Decks have been cleared for the Babri Masjid judgement on Thursday, as the Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted its stay on a pronouncement by the Special Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court that will decide whether Hindus or Mohammedans will get control of the disputed site on which the mosque was demolished in December 1992, triggering riots across India, killing over 2,000. The high court would have pronounced its decision on the 60-year-old land title suit last Friday, but the apex court slapped a stay a day earlier on an urgent Special Leave Petition (SLP) by retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, to give time for an out-of-court settlement. "Having considered in detail the arguments of the parties, we are of the view that the SLP has to be dismissed," said a summary order pronounced by a three-judge bench headed by Parsi Chief Justice Santosh Homi Kapadia. It gave no reason for overturning the stay granted by another bench of justices RV Raveendran and HL Gokhale last Thursday to allow the two communities a chance to settle it amicably. The Centre also conveyed to the highest court through Attorney General Goolam E Vahanvati that it did not want any uncertainty over the high court's decision. "We cannot keep the security forces in suspended animation for long," the AG stated, pleading that the judgement on ownership of the disputed site, one way or the other, should come without any further hitches. |
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