New Delhi: Supreme Court on Friday said that a new bench will be set up to hear the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi title suit of Ayodhya on January 10.
Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said the appropriate orders on the hearings would be issued by the new bench.
The proceedings in the Supreme Court on Friday were carried out expeditiously, with the apex court’s order regarding subsequent movement in the case being delivered within seconds of the bench assembling. Accordingly, it’ll be the bench that is to be constituted that will decide on matters such as whether the hearing will be fast-tracked, as had been the demand of multiple petitioners.
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“Further orders will be passed by an appropriate bench on January 10 for fixing the date of hearing the matter,” a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S K Kaul said in the hearing that lasted barely 30 seconds. Senior advocates Harish Salve and Rajeev Dhavan, appearing for different parties, did not even get the opportunity to make any submission.
The Supreme Court was taking up the Ayodhya matter again on Friday for the first time in two months, after earlier having deprioritised it.
When the matter was previously listed before the apex court, on October 29, it said that it would form a bench in the first week of January to decide when the hearing will start.