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A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court has referred the Ayodhya dispute for mediation in a bid to heal minds and hearts.
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The mediation would start in a week in Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh of which the disputed area is a part with the process conducted in-camera.
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Legal provisions for Mediation(1) Under Section 89 of the Civil Procedure Code, judges must ensure that all avenues to resolve a dispute outside the Court have been exhausted.(2) Court said that there exist elements of a settlement which may be acceptable to the parties, the Court shall formulate the terms of settlement and give them to the parties for their observations.
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After receiving the observations of the parties, the Court may reformulate the terms of a possible settlement and refer the same for:(1) Arbitration: a process by which parties select an independent person, who renders a decision regarding the case.(2) Conciliation: it attempts to make parties come to an agreement, about the problem at hand.(3) Judicial settlement including settlement through Lok Adalat or Mediation.
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The Hindu