Review plea before Dec 9: AIMPLB

Lucknow: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) said on Wednesday that it would file a review petition against the Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya title suit before December 9.

“The board is firm on its decision to file a review petition in the Supreme Court, and we have time till December 9 for doing so,” AIMPLB secretary Zafaryab Jilani said. The Sunni Central Waqf Board decided it would not file a review petition but was yet to take a call on whether to accept a five-acre plot for a mosque.

Stressing that the decision of the Sunni Board, one of the main litigants, would have no effect on the AIMPLB decision, Jilani said the board had already taken a final decision in this regard in its meeting here on November 17. 

“Exercising our constitutional



right, we are going to file a review petition in the Babri Masjid case during the first week of December. Sunni Waqf Board’s decision not to pursue the case won’t legally affect us. All Muslim organisations are on the same page,” Zafaryab Jilani was quoted in a tweet by the AIMPLB.

“The date for filing the review petition cannot be announced as of now as it is yet to be decided on whose behalf it will be filed,” Jilani said while alleging that prospective Muslim parties, who could file the review petition, were being harassed by the Ayodhya police. The police were warning Muslim litigants that they would be framed and put behind bars if they filed a review petition. This behaviour of police could also be mentioned in the petition, the AIMPLB secretary said.