A three-judge bench of Allahabad high court on September 30,2010 had passed three separate judgments with the majority verdict holding that the area covered by the central dome of the three-domed babri Masjid, where the idol of Lord Rama is situated, belongs to Hindus.
While justice Khan and Agarwal were of the view that the entire disputed land should be divided into three parts – one part each to Sunni Waqf Board, Nirmohi Akhara and the parties representing ‘Ram Lalla Virajman’.In the Supreme court a bench of justices Aftab Alam and R M Lodha would hear the appeals filed by Jamait Ulama-I-Hind, Sunni Central Wakf Board Nirmohi Akhara and Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha,. A petition has also been filed on behalf of Bhagwan Ram Virajman.
The Wakf Board and Jamait Ulama-I-Hind have submitted that the High Court’s verdict should be quashed as it was based on faith and not on evidence. It contended that the court has committed an error by holding that the building stood at the place of birth of Ram.
They said that claims of Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara over the controversial site are mutually exclusive and cannot be shared.
Jamait appeal in the apex court said that it was nobody’s case in the High Court that the Muslims, Hindus and Nirmohi Akhara were in joint possession of the disputed premises. “The claims of the three sets of plaintiffs were mutually exclusive in the sense each set of plaintiffs claimed the entire property as its own and no one sought a decree for partition of the property,” it said.
The Hindu Mahasabha, on the other hand, has sought only partial annulment of the majority verdict of the high court, which ruled for handing over one third of the disputed site to Muslims. It sought the apex court’s endorsement of the September 30 minority verdict by Justice Dharam Veer Sharma who ruled for handing over of the entire land to Hindus.