Muslim law board to move SC against Ayodhya verdict deferment

Lucknow : Favoring an early court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said it could move the Supreme Court against the plea for deferment in the judgement.

Pointing that efforts in the past for an out-of-court settlement had failed, the AIMPLB favoured a verdict by the Allhabad High Court as the aggrieved party always has the option of moving the apex court against the judgement at a later stage.

?In the past several efforts had been made to sort out the issue amicably, but they failed to give result. If required the AIMPLB would also move an application in the SC against plea of Ramesh Chandra Tripathi,” AIMPLB’s working committee member Qasim Rasool Illiyas was quoted as stating in reports on Sunday.

?This is not the time for any talks when the verdict is about to be delivered,? he said, sniffing a political conspiracy in the move to defer the verdict.

?It is a non-serious effort on the part of a person, who has no role in the title suits,? Qasim said, referring to Tripathi, on whose plea the apex court had put off the verdict by the High Court that was due on September 24.

Rubbishing the argument that it was not the proper time for the verdict, Qasim said, ?It is being said that situation is not conducive for the verdict, but this is the best time as both the parties have said that they will honour the court’s decision.?

A three-judge bench, headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) S H Kapadia, will hear the Ayodhya verdict deferment petition in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

The bench includes Justices Aftab Alam and KS Radhakrishnan.

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the much-awaited verdict on the Ayodhya title suit by the Allahabad High Court?s Lucknow bench by a week, leaving “room” for a possible out of court settlement, an option trashed by the contending parties.

The verdict on the 60- year-old Ayodhya title suits to determine who owns the disputed land is being awaited with eagerness by both the Muslims and Hindus and with consternation by the governments tasked to prevent riots over the issue.

Over 2,000 people were killed in the riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid by Hindu kar sevaks on December 6, 1992, who claimed the Masjid was built after demolishing a Ram temple in 1528.