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No urgent hearing, Supreme Court puts Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute case in cold storage.

Dhananjay Mahapatra| TNN | New Delhi |  Apr 1, 2017:: After expressing its readiness to work for a ‘negotiated settlement’ of the vexed litigation over the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, the Supreme Court firmly put the six year-old appeals back in cold storage saying “we don’t have time for early hearing of this case”.

On March 21, an SC bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar had suggested a negotiated settlement to the 70-year-old dispute immediately after BJP member Subramanian Swamy mentioned the pending appeals and sought an urgent hearing.

Justice Khehar even offered to mediate between the warring sides and suggested that he could offer the services of any sitting SC judge if the parties so desired to commence negotiations. The CJI had told Swamy to mention again on March 31 after talking to parties to the dispute.

Swamy was first in the queue for mentioning on Friday before the CJI-headed bench but was in for a disappointment with the CJI saying he made the observation favouring a negotiated settlement unaware that the BJP MP was not a party to the petitions.