Supreme Court refuses early hearing for Ram temple case

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today refused to give an early hearing to the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case , on a plea by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy.

After the court's refusal, Swamy said he was not happy. "So don't be happy," the top court said.


On March 21, the apex court said that fresh attempts must be made by all parties to end the Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute through a negotiated settlement . The Chief Justice had offered to mediate between both parties in the Ayodhya case and also said he was willing spare any other sitting SC judge for the purpose

Chief Justice J S Khehar said he was ready to sit down as principal negotiator with the mediators chosen by parties to settle the disputes between Hindus and Muslims over the nearly century-old issue.

The CJI told the BJP's Swamy at the time that that if the parties wanted any other sitting judge of the SC as the principal negotiator, he was ready to make the judge available.

However Swamy contended that several such attempts had been made in the past and that it was time for a judicial intervention to settle the case.

After the Allahabad HC verdict on the issue, appeals from both sides are pending in the Supreme Court for several years.

The Allahabad HC in its 2010 judgement ruled for a 3-way division of the disputed area.The majority of the three-judge bench directed that the disputed site of 2.77 acres be partitioned equally among three parties: Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara (a Hindu group).