Jamiat plea on Ayodhya in top court
Jamiat Ulema-I-Hind on Monday became the first of the 28 parties in the Ayodhya title suit to file an appeal in the Supreme Court to challenge the Allahabad high court verdict declaring the place where the disputed structure stood as the “birthplace” of Lord Ram.
The JUH, which filed the petition through its counsel Anis Suharawardy, also challenged the division of the 2.77 acres of disputed land into three parts. While challenging the findings on the grounds that the HC had based its conclusions on the basis of “faith and belief” rather than any concrete documentary evidence, the JUH said the mosque was “illegally” demolished.
“As the ruins of the mosque still exist there, the foundation of it still was intact, the title (of Muslims) would not extinguish (sic) by demolition alone,” the SLP said, adding it was therefore incumbent upon the court to uphold the rule of law and not to validate the “illegal act” of demolition of December 6, 1992.
“It was nobody’s case in the high court that the Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara were in joint possession of the disputed premises. The claims of the three sets of plaintiffs were mutually exclusive in the sense each set of plaintiffs claimed the entire property as its own and no one sought a decree for partition of the property,” the JUH claimed.
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