With the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court due to rule on the Ayodhya “title suit” on Friday, suspense prevailed on whether the Supreme Court would intervene to get the verdict deferred after a bench refused to hear a plea to postpone the verdict on technical grounds.
Justice Altmas Kabir, sitting with Justice A.K. Patnaik, ruled at 2 pm on Wednesday that he could not hear the matter as he did not “have the determination” for it and advised petitioner Ramesh Chandra Tripathi to approach the registry to get the case listed before another bench on Thursday.