Hindu Mahasabha files review petition in SC, says ‘5 acres wrongly given in Ayodhya to Sunni Central Waqf Board’.

Ayodhya: Hindu Mahasabha moves against SC order granting 5 acres to Muslims.

Upendra Bharti | HENB | New Delhi | Dec 9, 2019:: Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on December 09 filed a review petition in the Apex Court. Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain said that in the review petition Hindu Mahasabha enlisted five points that the five acres of land allotted to the Sunni Central Waqf Board is wrongly given. Second point is that the comment of Supreme Court on places of Worship Act 1991 is wrong as there was no arguments from any sides and urges the bench to take back the finding. There are three more points that the Hindu Mahasabha raised in front of the Apex Court.

The review petition was filed by Hindu Mahasabha President Sishir Chaturvedi. In the petition the Hindu party challenged the SC verdict as it criticized the 6th Dec 1992 demolition of Babri Structure as reference which would surely create impact on the related cases impending in the court of law. More over the petition challenged the SC’s observations in the verdict as it relied on the fact that the Ram Lalla idol was installed inside the disputed structure in the intervening night of 22-23 December 1949 without any proper evidence and called the disputed structure as Mosque against Islamic law.

Renowned Ram Janmabhoomi lawyer Hari Shankar Jain also joined in the move to file the Review Petition on behalf of Hindu Mahasabha. Eminent Hindu interlocutor and Hindu Existence website editor, Upananda Brahmachari opined that the apex court must consider the importance of the review petition of Hindu Mahasabha as the SC verdict on Ayodhya land suit hurt the sentiment of millions of Hindus by allowing 5 acre land to Muslims to rebuild a mosque in Ayodhya in the name of barbaric invader Babar.

The years-long Ayodhya Ramjanmabhoomi dispute was settled after a five-judge bench, headed by the then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, on November 9 delivered the verdict. The unanimous verdict had decreed the entire 2.77 acre disputed land in favour of deity ‘Ram Lalla’ and also directed the Centre to allot a 5-acre plot to Sunni Waqf Board for building a mosque in Ayodhya.

It is this 5-acre provision that the Hindu Mahasabha has vehemently questioned in the review petition. Since the Supreme Court had said in its ruling that both the inside and outside courtyard of the disputed site in Ayodhya belongs to the Hindus, there is no reason for the court to allot a 5-acre plot to the Muslims, the review petition explains.

Hindu Mahasabha’a review petition comes close on heels with the demand from the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) that the Sunni Waqf Board be allotted land outside the municipal limits of Ayodhya for construction of a mosque.

The Hindu Mahasabha’s will be the seventh petition in the case. Six petitions, all from Muslim side, were filed in the Supreme Court seeking review of its November 9 judgment. While five pleas have been filed by Maulana Mufti Hasbullah, Moulana Mahfoozur Rehman, Mishbahuddin, Mohd Umar and Haji Nahboob, who are all supported by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), the sixth one has been filed by Mohammad Ayub.

Off late, it is learnt that 48 selective secular activists and academicians under urban naxal cover are also likely to file a review petition in Supreme Court against Ayodhya verdict. They are moving to the court seeking review of the court’s decision to allocate an alternative 5-acre plot to the Muslim side to build a mosque. The group is led by Advocate Prashant Bhushan, as heard.

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__Inputs from TOI | ANI | Agencies.