NEW DELHI: The
Supreme Court will on Friday hear issues relating to
Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case.
A notice in this regard was put up on the apex court website which said that the matter will be heard by a five-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer.
The apex court had on March 8 appointed a panel of mediators
headed by former top court judge Justice F M I Kalifulla for exploring the possibility of an amicable settlement to the vexatious land dispute.
Spiritual guru and founder of Art of Living foundation Sri Sri Ravishankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu, a renowned mediator, are the other two members of the panel of mediators.
The panel was asked by the apex court to hold an in-camera proceedings and complete it within eight weeks.
Fourteen appeals have been filed in the apex court against the 2010
Allahabad high court judgment, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among the three parties -- the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.