TheSupreme Court on Thursday commenced hearing in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjidland dispute case for the tenth day with counsel for the one of the originallitigants seeking enforcement of his rights to worship at the disputed site.
Appearingfor Gopal Singh Visharad, one of the original litigants, Senior Advocate RanjitKumar commenced arguments before a five-judge Constitution bench headed byChief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi which was hearing the title dispute.
AdvocateKumar told a bench which also comprises Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud,Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer said that he made his submissions with referenceto Parasaran's and Vaidyanathan's submissions that the place is itself a divinesite and that he being the worshipper, his right to worship which is a civilright should not be curtailed.
Appearingfor Ram Lalla Virajaman, Senior Advocates K Prasaran and CS Vaidyanathan whichis one of the parties in the decades old dispute had earlier told the benchthat the birthplace of Lord Ram at Ayodhya is itself a deity and that no onecan claim ownership right over the sacred place by merely putting up astructure-like a mosque.
Vaidyanathanfurther said that neither Nirmohi Akhara nor the Muslim parties can take thebenefit of legal principle of adverse possession to claim ownership right overthe 2.77 acre disputed land in Ayodhya.
Fourteenappeals have been filed in the top court against the 2010 Allahabad High Courtjudgment saying that the 2.77 acre of land in Ayodhya should be equallypartitioned among the three parties- Ram Lalla, Nirmohi Akhara and Sunni WaqfBoard.
