The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case and may take up the report of the mediation panel tasked with exploring the possibility of an amicable settlement of the decades-old issue. The panel was constituted by the top court on March 8.
A notice posted on the apex court’s website said that the constitution bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi would assemble at 10.30 am to take up the matter. This will be the first time that the bench will take up matter since it referred the dispute to the mediation panel. Friday is the last day before the court breaks for summer vacation; it is to reopen in July. The other members of the bench are justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer. The court had on March 8 set up a three-member mediation panel and told it to submit its report within eight weeks. Justice FM Khalifulah, a retired Supreme Court judge, is the chairman of the panel and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu are the other mediators. Panchu is a trained mediator. According to the court order, the mediation took place at Faizabad.
The Supreme Court will on Friday hear the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case and may take up the report of the mediation panel tasked with exploring the possibility of an amicable settlement of the decades-old issue. The panel was constituted by the top court on March 8.
A notice posted on the apex court’s website said that the constitution bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi would assemble at 10.30 am to take up the matter. This will be the first time that the bench will take up matter since it referred the dispute to the mediation panel. Friday is the last day before the court breaks for summer vacation; it is to reopen in July. The other members of the bench are justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer. The court had on March 8 set up a three-member mediation panel and told it to submit its report within eight weeks. Justice FM Khalifulah, a retired Supreme Court judge, is the chairman of the panel and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu are the other mediators. Panchu is a trained mediator. According to the court order, the mediation took place at Faizabad.
