Did the Babri Masjid demolition shake the Indian Muslims' faith in the ability of the State to protect the lives and rights of its citizens? Twenty years down, Syed Shahabuddin looks back in an interaction with IBNLive readers. ...
12:58 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday admitted two more petitions challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict of three-way division of the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and RM Lodhat tagged the petitions with the main case on which it had stayed the operation of the September 30, 2010, verdict of the high court. The latest petitions have been filed by Akhil...
04:50 PM, Aug 08, 2011
New Delhi: Various parties to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit on Monday expressed satisfaction over the Supreme Court order staying the Allahabad High Court direction for tripartite division of the disputed land. The counsel for various parties, including Lord Rama Lalla Virajman, Hindu Maha Sabha and Sunni Waqf Board, expressed satisfaction over the apex court's interim order saying that none of the parties had sought division of the 2.77...
08:51 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: Expelled BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday demanded building a country-wide consensus for construction of a magnificent temple at Ayodhya in wake of the Supreme Court order and said the matter should be settled outside court. "From the beginning, we have been demanding that a consensus be built across the country for a magnificent temple in Ayodhya. There is no clash of faith in Ayodhya. There should not...
07:54 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: Various parties to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit on Monday expressed satisfaction over the Supreme Court order staying the Allahabad High Court direction for tripartite division of the disputed land. The counsel for various parties, including Lord Rama Lalla Virajman, Hindu Maha Sabha and Sunni Waqf Board, expressed satisfaction over the apex court's interim order saying that none of the parties had sought division of the 2.77...
03:29 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: Ravi Shankar Prasad, the lawyer for Ram Lalla, said the Supreme Court on Monday accepted the appeals files against the Allahabad High Court verdict regarding partition of the disputed land in Ayodhya. "There were appeals filed against the Allahabad High Court verdict. This appeal was accepted. The court said that if parties didn't ask for a partition of the land then how can the court decide on it,"...
01:24 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: Sunni Wakf Board lawyer Zafaryab Jilani says he is satisfied with the Supreme Court decision of staying the Allahabad High Court's order on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute. Jilani, who was upset after the September 30 Allahabad High Court's decision of splitting the land into three parts, said on Monday, "Today's order was a balanced order." "No religious worship will be allowed at the disputed site," he...
01:02 PM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Monday hear arguments in the Ramjanmbhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit in which a bunch of petitions have been filed by various Muslim and Hindu groups challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict. Expressing dissatisfaction over the High Court's verdict of dividing the 2.77 acre disputed site into three parts among Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara, different religious groups have approached the apex court. A bench...
09:39 AM, May 08, 2011
New Delhi: The three groups involved in the Ayodhya title suit have come together for the first time to look for an out-of-court solution to the dispute, with representatives of Ram Lalla Virajman joining the talks for the first time. Triloki Nath Pandey, who represents Ram Lalla Virajman, joined the negotiations aimed at finding an amicable solution to the 60-year-old dispute. Mahant Bhaskar Das of Nirmohi Akhara, which has been...
07:55 PM, Oct 08, 2010
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court verdict in the Babri Masjid land title dispute finally came out on Thursday. But how much of a difference does this verdict make to the aam admi? Has India moved beyond the decades-old-dispute? CNN-IBN takes a look. “India had moved on since 1992 and had emerged a far bigger story than that could be derailed over a land dispute,” said Home Minister P. Chidambaram....
08:49 AM, Oct 01, 2010
Tonight on Face the Nation we discuss whether the Ayodhya verdict can bring closure. ...
07:24 AM, Oct 01, 2010
Bhopal: Former BJP leader Uma Bharti on Thursday termed the Allahabad High Court's verdict on Ayodhya title suits as the happiest moment of her life, saying it has proved that Lord Ram was born at that particular site in the temple town. "This (Ayodhya verdict) is the happiest moment of my life as the High Court has put its seal of approval on a matter of faith which was a...
10:26 PM, Sep 30, 2010
Brief summary Subject matter of the decided cases OOS No. 1 of 1989 Shri Gopal Singh Visharad Vs. Zahur Ahmad and 8 others, OOS No. 3 of 1989 Nirmohi Aakhada etc. Vs. Baboo Priya Dutt Ram and others, OOS No. 4 of 1989 Sunni central Board of Waqfs U.P. Lucknow and others Vs. Gopal Singh Visharad and others and O.O.S.No. 5 of 1989 Bhagwan Sri Ram Virajman at Ayodhya and...
06:28 PM, Sep 30, 2010
(Relevant paragraphs containing result/directions issued) 4566. In the light of the above and considering overall findings of this Court on various issues, following directions and/or declaration, are given which in our view would meet the ends of justice: (i) It is declared that the area covered by the central dome of the three domed structure, i.e., the disputed structure being the deity of Bhagwan Ram Janamsthan and place of birth...
06:28 PM, Sep 30, 2010
Gist of the findings 1. The disputed structure was constructed as mosque by or under orders of Babar. 2. It is not proved by direct evidence that premises in dispute including constructed portion belonged to Babar or the person who constructed the mosque or under whose orders it was constructed. 3. No temple was demolished for constructing the mosque. 4. Mosque was constructed over the ruins of temples, which were...
06:23 PM, Sep 30, 2010
Lucknow: It's the night before the Lucknow bench delivers one of the most closely watched verdicts of the century -- the title suit in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi matter will be decided on Thursday afternoon. For security forces across the country, that means a high alert with arrangements in place already, particularly in Uttar Pradesh. One lakh ninety thousand troops on the streets of UP are gearing up for a...
07:43 PM, Sep 29, 2010
New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday dismissed the petition seeking deferment of the Ayodhya verdict. Now, after a unanimous go-ahead from the three-judge bench led by the chief justice himself, the Allahabad High Court can deliver its judgment on the 60-year-old bitter dispute on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid matter. Parties to the case have welcomed the move. Here’s how the main parties stood up in the case. R...
08:47 PM, Sep 28, 2010
Ayodhya: A day before Supreme Court takes up the plea to defer the judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, Ayodhya on Monday turned into a fortress with heavy deployment of security forces. Paramilitary forces, along with the Uttar Pradesh Police, staged a flag march in the twin towns of Ayodhya and Faizabad, where security forces have been put on high alert. Heavy deployment of forces has been made...
11:12 PM, Sep 27, 2010
New Delhi: In a day from now, we'll witness the judgement in one of the most sensitive cases in modern India - the Ayodhya verdict. And one man who will be watching the developments very closely is the man who was the face of the Ram Temple movement, LK Advani. Lal Kishenchand Advani is India's most travelled Rath Yaatri. The man who flagged off the Ram Temple movement in the...
09:37 AM, Sep 23, 2010
Lucknow: One of the three judges in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court on Monday disagreed with the majority order rejecting the plea for deferring the Ayodhya verdict to allow mediation and wrote a dissenting note saying an amicable settlement could have been explored. Justice Dharam Veer Sharma while not concurring with the view of the other two judges - Justice S U Khan and Justice Sudhir Agarwal...
04:27 PM, Sep 20, 2010
