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Ayodhya case: Muslims file review plea
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- Hardly a month after SC permitted the construction of a temple in the disputed land in Ayodhya, the Muslim parties on Dec 2 filed a petition seeking a review of the November 9 judgment.
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- Plea Filed mentioned that:
(1) The court had effectively righted the illegal acts of Hindus.
(2) There cannot be peace without justice.
(3) The court seems to have granted a mandamus to destroy the Babri Masjid and allowed the construction of a Ram temple on the disputed land.
(4) Through its judgment, the court seems to have acknowledged “few of the several illegalities committed by the Hindu parties, particularly in 1934 [damaging the domes of the Babri Masjid], 1949 [desecrating the masjid] and 1992 [demolition of the masjid]”. The court had erred in “rewarding” these crimes.
(5) The court had even gone on to “condone those very illegal acts and has awarded the disputed site to the very party which based its claims on nothing but a series of illegal acts”.
(6) It had equated wanton acts of destruction and trespass committed by the Hindu parties to acts of assertion of claim over the disputed site.
(7) With its judgment, the court had violated the settled legal principle that it cannot shelter parties who based their claim on an illegal act. “
(9) Further, this Court has, in an attempt to balance the reliefs between the parties, while condoning illegalities of the Hindu parties, has allotted alternate land admeasuring five acres to the Muslim parties, which was neither pleaded nor prayed for,” the 217-page review plea contended.
- The court wrongly applied its extraordinary constitutional powers under Article 142 of the Constitution to do complete justice, which in this case was reconstruction of Babri Masjid.
Sources
The Hindu