With Allahabad high court poised to make another attempt to settle the Ayodhya title suits through a compromise, two parties to the 60-year-old case on Thursday moved the court opposing deferring of the verdict expected to be pronounced next week.
Sunni Central Board of Waqfs and the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, through their lawyers Zafaryab Jilani and H.S. Jain respectively, on Thursday filed objections before the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) of the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court against any deferment of the verdict likely to be pronounced by the special bench on September 24.
Citing apprehension of breach of peace and the upcoming Commonwealth Games, two separate applications seeking directions for deferring the verdict were moved before the Allahabad High Court on September 13.
Both the objections filed today would be placed before the court along with the application seeking deferment on Friday, Sunni Board and Mahasabha sources said. Mr Jain in his objection has stated that an attempt had been made by the court on July 27 for reaching an amicable settlement but no one had appeared on behalf of Ramesh Chandra Tripathi, a defendant in suit no. 4, whose counsel had later sought deferment and effo-rts towards a reconciliation.
“It appears that the present application (for deferment) has been filed at the behest of some disgruntled persons who do not believe in the majesty of law for their personal gains and are trying to create every hindrance in the delivery of judgement as scheduled,” Mr Jain said in the plea, claiming that it was a “proxy” application.
The board, which is a plaintiff in suit no.4., has contended that “there was no chance of solution of the dispute in question by mediation\conciliation \arbitration and therefore there was no justification of deferring the verdict which should be pronounced on the scheduled date”. It stated that the application moved by Mr Tripathi “be dismissed with heavy costs and the pronouncement of the judgment in the suit may not be deferred”. Taking cognisance of the application of Ramesh Chandra Tripathi on September 13, one of the three judges related to the case, Justice D.V Sharma, had directed all the lawyers representing the parties concerned to appear before the bench to resolve the dispute amicably through reconciliation September 17.
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Respect judgment, says Deoband
Muzaffarnagar, Sept. 16:Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband has appealed to people to respect the verdict of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on the Ayodhya title suit.
“We have full confidence in the judicial system of the country. We appeal to people to respect the verdict of the Court and maintain peace and communal harmony in the country,” Seminary’s deputy vice-chancellor Maulana Abdul Kha-lique Madrasi said. —PTI