The Supreme Court will today hear the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case, to determine ownership of the 2.77 acre disputed land in Ayodhya.
During the last hearing in February, the apex court had said it will deal the case as a pure land dispute and refused to hear it on day-to-day basis.
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A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S Abdul Nazeer refused appellants' plea for day to day hearing, saying "over 700 poor litigants are waiting for justice, we have to hear them".
The court had directed parties in the case to file translated copies of the documents before it.
The SC was hearing a batch of cross-petitions challenging 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict that had divided the disputed Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi site between the Nirmohi Akhara, Lord Ram deity and the Sunni Waqf Board.
The top court was moved challenging the Allahabad High Court verdict by petitioners M Siddiqui represented by his legal heirs, the Nirmohi Akhara, the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board, Bhagwan Shri Ram Virajman, All India Hindu Mahasabha's Swami Chakrapani, the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, the Akhil Bharatiya Sri Ramjanam Bhoomi Punardhar Samiti and others.
A three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court, in a 2:1 majority ruling, had ordered that the land be partitioned equally among three parties - the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and the deity, Ram Lalla.
(With inputs from agencies)
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