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Muslim law board to file review plea against Ayodhya verdict
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- All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on 17 Nov declined the 5-acres of land allotted to Muslims in Ayodhya and decided to file a review petition against SC verdict in the Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhoomi case.
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- Reasons cited by the board:
(1) 5-acre Land will not heal the Wounds: where fundamental values have been damaged to the extent of causing national shame.
(2) Not Permissible: Mosques “are essential for religious practice of Muslims” and that “building the same mosque at some other site in situations like this is also not permissible as per Islamic Law.
(3) Rights to land and justice: The matter was not about a mosque as there was “no dearth” of mosques in Ayodhya, 27 of them functional, but about “rights to a land” and justice.
(4) Apparent errors in the verdict: There were several self contradictory points in the verdict of the Supreme Court, on several points it was also beyond comprehension, and prima facie appears to be inappropriate.”
(5) Installed by force: if the placing of idols of Lord Ram under the dome of the Babri Masjid “by force” on the intervening night of December 22-23, 1949, was “illegal”, then how were such illegally placed idols considered a deity? Even under “Hindu dharma shastra,” they could not be a deity.
(6) If “it was proven that Muslims had possession of Babri Masjid from 1857 to 1949 and also offered namaz there,” on what basis was the land of the mosque given to Ram Lalla?
(7) Use of Article 142 by SC: While using Article 142, the judges did not consider that the exchange or transfer of masjid land was barred under Sections 104A and 51(1) of the Waqf Act. How could another piece of land be given in exchange for the masjid land, going against the statute and legal restrictions.
(8) Rejecting the land would not amount to contempt: as the directions of the apex court were to the Central government and not to the Muslim community.
- The AIMPLB’s decision stands in contrast to the stance of the Sunni Central Waqf Board, whose chairman on the day of the verdict, stated to not go in for any review of SC ruling or file any curative petition.
Sources
The Hindu