Babri Masjid panel likely to move SC with curative plea
LUCKNOW: The Babri Masjid Action Committee (BMAC) is likely to file a curative petition in the Supreme Court against its November 9 verdict in the Ayodhya title suit that favoured the construction of a Ram temple on a disputed site in the holy town.
The decision was taken at a meeting in Lucknow on Wednesday of the BMAC, which has resisted the theory that Mughal emperor Babur had destroyed a temple at the site and constructed the now-demolished Babri mosque on its ruins.
“A meeting of the Babri Masjid Action Committee was convened in Lucknow (on Wednesday). In this meeting, possibilities of filing a curative petition in the Supreme Court against its November 9 verdict on the Ayodhya title suit were discussed,” said Haji Mahboob, a member of the committee and one of the petitioners in the case.
“When a curative petition is filed, we will ask the Supreme Court to hand over to us the debris of the Babri Masjid which is lying at the site,” added Mahboob. A review petition filed by the All India Muslim Personal
Law Board and others on the Supreme Court verdict was rejected by the top court on December 12. A curative petition is the last judicial resort possible on any judgment passed by the Supreme Court.
In a landmark ruling, a fivejudge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on November 9 unanimously ruled that the disputed site in Ayodhya will go to Hindus and Muslims will get an alternative five-acre plot for the construction of a mosque.
The court also ordered the government to set up a trust to oversee the management of the site and the construction of a temple.
Later, on December 13, the Supreme Court dismissed several review petitions challenging its verdict and said there were no grounds whatsoever for interference with its judgment.
The petitions were decided in-chamber.
“We have gone through the review petitions and the connected papers filed therewith. We do not find any ground, whatsoever, to entertain the same. The Review Petitions are, accordingly, dismissed,” a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) SA Bobde said in its order.