Supreme Court grants till August 15 in Ayodhya land dispute case

New Delhi, May 10, 2019:

The Supreme Court on Friday granted time till August 15 to the three-member mediation panel in Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid land dispute case of Ayodhya to submit its report on the issue.

The mediation panel headed by Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim (FMI) Kalifulla, comprising spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar and senior advocate Sriram Panchu, had sought time extension to find and an amicable solution of the politically sensitive issue.

A five-judge constitutional bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi comprising of Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer, agreed to the panel's demand, during the hearing, that barely lasted for three minutes, saying that there was no harm in giving them more time as the case has been pending for many years.

The SC has also allowed parties to raise objections before the panel till June 30.