Supreme Court stays Ayodhya verdict

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed the Allahabad High Court?s order of dividing the disputed Ayodhya site into three parts and that one of it would go to the Hindus, one to the Muslims and one to Misnoig.

During its first hearing on the Ayodhya title suit, the apex court said: “How could the high court engineer something like partitioning of disputed land on its own.?

The court issued notice to all parties on staying the high court verdict.

A three-member Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Sep 30 passed a verdict upholding the Hindu claim that the disputed site of Ayodhya, where a mosque stood before it was demolished by the Hindu kar sevaks in 1992, is the birthplace of Lord Rama, but ruled that the land would be divided into three parts with one third going to the Muslims along with one third for the Hindus.

Rejecting the Sunni Waqf Board and Nirmohi Akhara?s title suit, the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court said Hindu deity Lord Ram was born indeed on the disputed Ayodhya site, bringing a temporary closure on the 60-year-old dispute since the judgement was challenged in the Supreme Court as expected.

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.