SC Concludes Ayodhya Hearing, Reserves Judgement

New Delhi: The Supreme Court concluded on Wednesday the day-to-day hearing on the controversial Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case and reserved its judgement, according to live and law.

The 5-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi was hearing the case today which was on its 40th day.

The apex court said rest of submissions can be made in written form in the next three days.

The SC had earlier said that the hearing would conclude on October 17. The bench further rejected a plea of a party offering mediation in the case and observed that no interventions will be allowed at this stage of the proceedings.

It may be recalled that after the Allahabad High Court gave its judgement in 2010, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among three parties -- the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla, fourteen appeals have been filed in the apex court against the judgement. The 16th-century Babri Masjid was demolished on December 6, 1992.