SC to commence hearing in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute today

Supreme Court is likely to commence from today the hearing on a batch of petitions in Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute case. The hearing assumes significance after a special bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra rejected Sunni Waqf Board's submission that the pleas be heard after the next general elections. 

The bench, also comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer, had made it clear on December 5 last



year, that it will begin final hearing on the petitions from February 8 and had asked the parties to file the requisite pleadings in the meantime.

The apex court is seized of 14 appeals filed against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment delivered in four civil suits. The High Court had ordered that the land is partitioned equally among three parties - the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.