Review petition filed against Supreme Court’s Ayodhya verdict

Maulana Syed
Ashhad Rashidi, a legal heir of original Ayodhya land dispute contender
on Monday filed a review
petition in the Supreme Court against its decision in favour of the Ram temple
at the disputed site.

 This is the first review petition filed by a
Muslim party against the verdict that had ordered a 5-acre
plot be given to the Sunni Board by the government because the community had been
wronged more than once.

In its
request to the Supreme Court to revisit its verdict, Rashidi said “the judgment
by the five-judge bench had acknowledged few of the several illegalities committed
by the Hindu Parties but proceeded to condone the said illegal acts and awarded
the disputed site to the very party which based its claims on nothing but a series
of illegal acts”.

A five-judge
bench led by former chief justice Ranjan Gogoi had last month cleared the
construction of Ram Mandir in its verdict in favour of Ram Lalla Virajman. The
constitution bench had also directed the Centre to allocate five-acre land to
the Sunni Central Waqf Board in Ayodhya to compensate them for the wrongs
committed including 1992 demolition of the mosque.

The Sunni
Board, which was awarded the land, has decided against filing an appeal against
the verdict. It has, however, put off a decision on accepting the land and has
declared that the board will discuss this part of the ruling only after the
government makes an offer.