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#RamJanambhoomi - #Babri: Supreme Court rejects all intervention applications, directs Registry not to entertain any interventions.

#RamJanambhoomi - #Babri: Subramanian Swamy's intervention application on right to worship has been converted to writ petition and will be heard by appropriate Bench.

#Ram-Janambhoomi - #Babri: Rajeev Dhavan making his submissions.

Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri: Will Ismail Faruqui be reconsidered by Constitution Bench? SC to decide @Swamy39

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The Supreme Court is considering whether the law laid down in paras 75 to 82 of its 1994 judgment in Ismail Faruqui v. Union of India should be revisited by a Constitution Bench.

"While offer of prayer/worship is a religious practice, its offering at every location where such prayers can be offered would not be an essential or integral part of such religious practice unless the place has a particular significance....

The three-judge Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer is heard the parties on this issue.

Dhavan - “Your Lordships will have to decide what is the meaning of ‘mosque’. The judgment is on the ground that a Muslim can pray anywhere & it does not make any difference whether it is a mosque or not. So do we take it that a mosque is not essential and integral? #Ayodhya

Rajeev Dhavan - “If there is any decency in our secular system, we would rebuild the mosque.”

#Ayodhya #Babri

’s intervention application was listed today. Swamy also stated that he had initially filed a writ petition but had withdrawn the same to file an application for intervention. #Ayodhya

Since the Court was not inclined to entertain intervention applications, it disposed of the same while ordering that the earlier writ petition filed by @Swamy39 shall stand revived. The writ petition (filed by @Swamy39) would be heard separately by an appropriate Bench.

The matter would now be heard on March 23, 2018. Read the order here - barandbench.com/wp-content/upl…

#Ayodhya