New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to refer a 1994 judgment holding that a mosque was not integral to Islam to a larger bench for reconsideration. Accordingly, the case will continue to be heard by the three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S. Abdul Nazeer. The court was hearing a total of 13 appeals filed against the 2010 judgment of the Allahabad High Court in four civil suits. They challenge the high court verdict that ordered a three-way division of the disputed 2.77-acre site. A civil suit for deciding the title of the property on which the Babri Masjid stood before it was demolished on 6 December 1992 had been filed before the high court.

Source: Mint September 27, 2018 09:45 UTC