March 14, 2018 8:13 PM

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Ayodhya dispute: SC rejects all interim pleas to intervene as parties

<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Supreme Court today rejected all interim pleas seeking to intervene as parties in the Babri Masjid-Ram temple land dispute case.&nbsp;</span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A special bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer accepted the contention that only original parties to the dispute be allowed to advance arguments in the case and the intervention applications of unrelated persons seeking implement as parties be rejected.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">It also rejected the plea of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy seeking to intervene in the ongoing matter.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The court, however, ordered revival of Swamy's disposed of the writ petition in which he had sought enforcement of his fundamental right to worship at Ram temple on the disputed site in Ayodhya.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The special bench of the apex court is seized of a total of 14 appeals filed against the high court judgement delivered in four civil suits.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">A three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court, in a 2:1 majority ruling, had in 2010 ordered that the land be partitioned equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.&nbsp;</div>

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