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Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday paved the way for
pronouncement of the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit
verdict by the Allahabad High Court, dismissing a petition seeking
deferment of the decision.
The petition was filed by former
bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi for postponing the high court
verdict till the end of the Commonwealth Games.
An apex court bench of Chief
Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice K.S.
Radhakrishnan passed the brief order when the court reassembled
after lunch break.
Speaking for the bench, Chief
Justice Kapadia said: “Having heard the arguments in detail, we
are of the view that the petition deserves to be dismissed.”
With the dismissal of Tripathi’s
petition, the timing for the pronouncement of the verdict now
rests with the high court.
In its pre-lunch sitting, the
apex court heard the arguments from both the sides.
Attorney General G. Vahanvati had
told the court: “If there is any possibility of the settlement
(out of court) we will welcome it but at the same time we don’t
want any uncertainty to continue.”
“For the sake of maintaining law
and order, we cannot keep security forces on sustained animation,”
he added.
The apex court had last week
ordered an interim stay on the pronouncement of the Babri
Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit verdict by the Lucknow bench of
the Allahabad High Court, acting on a petition by retired
bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi.
Tripathi had also sought the
court’s direction to the parties to explore the possibility of an
out-of-court amicable settlement.
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