Six years after the verdict in the Ram Mandir land dispute, a big revelation has come to light. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said at a function on Friday that efforts were made to ensure that the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case is not heard effectively in the Supreme Court.
He said this on the occasion of the release of the book titled ‘Case for Ram – The Untold Insider’s Story’ at the India International Centre. After this revelation, the Ram temple controversy has once again come into discussion.
Attempt to postpone the historical decision!
In a historic decision in 2019, a five-judge Constitution bench headed by then Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had allowed the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya. In this decision, the entire 2.77-acre plot was allotted for the temple and a separate five-acre plot was allotted for the construction of the mosque.
“Efforts were made, sometimes implicitly, sometimes very clearly, to ensure that the case did not go to trial,” Mehta said.
Lawyers had boycotted the court
He said, “One incident which has left a very bad feeling in my mind is that when all efforts to create obstruction failed, two eminent lawyers boycotted the court.” He further said that we have heard of this (walkout) only in Parliament, but it happened in the Ram Mandir case also.
Ram temple built after the decision
A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Ranjan Gogoi had in 2019 ordered the construction of a Ram temple on the disputed land. Apart from this, a separate five-acre plot was allotted for the mosque. The Ram temple was inaugurated in a grand ceremony on 22 January 2024. The ceremony took place in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, which is considered the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram.