AGENCIES / NEW DELHI

Supreme Court today said that hearing in Ayodhya land dispute case will be on a day-to-day basis and hearing will begin from August 6.

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi said that the mediation panel has not been able to achieve any final settlement.

Earlier, the apex court had asked the mediation panel to submit the status report on the mediation process by 31st July.

“The hearing of the case will be on a day-to-day basis, hearing to begin from August 6th,” Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi said during the hearing. He said that the mediation panel has not resulted in any settlement as a result of which a day-to-day hearing will be held in the matter. “The mediation panel has not been able to achieve any final settlement,” he said.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi had, on July 18, asked the three-member mediation panel headed by former Supreme Court judge FM Khalifulla to submit the report between July 31-August 1. “We request the mediation panel to inform the court the outcome of the mediation proceedings as on July 31,” the bench, which also consisted of justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer had said.

The panel submitted its report to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a sealed cover. On July 11, K Parasaran, the senior lawyer for Rajendra Singh, one of the petitioners had said, “Since mediation is unlikely to bring any positive result, the court should give a date for a hearing in the case.”