Supreme Court to hear Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid Case around 2 PM on Friday

The Supreme Court (SC) will hear the Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid Case around 2 PM on Friday. The SC had on March 14th dismissed the intervention application of 32 eminent persons in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case and fixed the next date of hearing for March 23. The court also barred BJP leader Subramanian Swamy from intervening in the case. The court rejected the application by 32 eminent persons, including Shyam Benegal, Aparna Sen, Anil Dharkar and Teesta Setalvad, who had sought to argue to put the 2.77 acres disputed land to secular use rather than religious use by adjudicating the dispute between Hindu and Muslim groups. With its order of dismissal of the intervention applications, the SC trimmed the dispute to strictly between those who were parties to the suits before Allahabad High Court. The Allahabad High Court had divided the 2.77 acres disputed land equally between three parties - deity Ram Lalla, Sunni Waqf Board and Nirmohi Akhara - in its 2010 judgment.