Sunni
Wakf Board says Ayodhya verdict delay petition untenable
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 10:04:01 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Sunni Central Wakf Board Monday said the petition by retired
bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi seeking the deferment of the
Allahabad High Court's verdict in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi
title case was "untenable, misconceived and frivolous" and needed
to be dismissed.
The board's affidavit, filed in the apex court registry, also said
the petitioner's "assumption of so-called repercussions or
apprehensions was totally unfounded".
Seeking the vacation of interim stay restraining the Allahabad
High Court from pronouncing the Ayodhya title suit verdict, it
said there was no such apprehension among the general public of
Ayodhya and Faizabad.
Describing Tripathi's petition as nothing but an attempt to thwart
the entire judicial efforts of last 60 years and put the clock
back, the affidavit said that Tripathi has not appeared in the
high court to plead his case in the last 19 years.
The only occasion he appeared in the court was in May 2005 when he
told that court that he had no witness to present before the court
and his evidence was closed, the affidavit noted.
It said it was "evident that Tripathi has no following amongst the
Hindus and such a person could not be expected to undertake the
exercise of out-of-court mutual settlement between the contending
parties".
Given the nature and background of the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi
dispute, the affidavit contended that it could not be resolved
through mediation, conciliation or arbitration.
Another respondent Mohammad Hashim said the efforts for negotiated
settlement were being made since 1986. It started with Jagadguru
Shankracharya of Kanchikoti inviting (noted Islamic scholar
Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi) Ali Mian in 1986 to find a
mutually acceptable resolution of the dispute.
Then several initiatives were taken by the then Prime Ministers
V.P. Singh, Chandra Shekhar, and P.V. Narasimha Rao and former
president R. Venkataraman.
The Shankracharya of Kanchikoti made another attempt to settle the
dispute through the negotiation route by roping in the All India
Muslim Personal Law Board president, Maulana Rabey Hasni Nadwi but
this effort also proved fruitless.
He said that the AIMPLB too has repeatedly said that the dispute
could only be resolved by the verdict of the court.
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