<div><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Supreme Court on Friday referred Ayodhya's Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case to mediation for amicable settlement.</span></div><br />''Former apex court judge Justice (retd) F M Kallifulla will head a panel of mediators in the case. Other members of the panel of mediators include spiritual guru Shri Shri Ravi Shankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Supreme Court said that proceedings in the case will be held in Faizabad and process to start within a week.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''The Court directs that the panel of mediators will file a progress report of the mediation proceedings within four weeks and the process should be completed within eight weeks.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''Court also said that panel of mediators may co-opt more members and in case of any difficulty, they can inform apex court registry. The court directed in camera proceedings of mediation in Ayodhya case and restrained media – both print and electronic – from reporting the proceedings of mediation case.<br />''<br />''A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Wednesday had reserved the order after hearing various contesting parties.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">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 Lala.</span><br />
News On AIR | March 8, 2019 8:11 PM
SC appoints three-member mediation panel in Ayodhya land dispute case