The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court will be completely out of bounds for media persons and members of the public on September 24 when the verdict on the Babri mosque title suit is pronounced.
The lawyer members of the Oudh Bar Association (OBA) will be issued special passes and identity cards to enable their entry into the court premises on Friday.
It has further been decided that lawyers and litigants whose cases are listed in the court on September 23 and 24 will also be issued separate passes for gaining entry.
According to sources, the high court judges have taken strong exception to slogan shouting by a group of lawyers before TV cameras outside the court premises on Friday when the court dismissed the pea for deferment of the September 24 verdict. “The media persons will not even be allowed to venture near the boundary wall of the high court and can set up their TV cameras in the Begum Hazrat Mahal Park or the Globe Park that is about 100 metres away from the court premises. Lawyers who wish to give their statement to the media can go there,” said a senior official of the court.
A heavy deployment of CRPF, PAC and civil police in large numbers are already been sanctioned inside and outside the court premises on the day of judgment.
Security has also been beefed up for the three judges in the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court who will be pronouncing the judgment.
The security for the three judges — Justices S.U. Khan, Sudhir Agarwal and DV Sharma — has also been almost doubled and force deployment at their residences has also been increased keeping in view the sensitive nature of the case, according to a government spokesman.