Ayodhya case: Supreme Court defers case to February next year

The Supreme court has fixed the Ayodhya dispute matter for further hearing on February 8, 2018.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal who is representing the Sunni Waqf Board inAyodhya Babri Masjid case has asked the Supreme Courtto take up the matter on July 15, 2019 once all the pleadings are complete.

He told the Supreme Court that serious repercussions will be created outside the court, whenever the matter is heard. To preserve the decorum of law and order, the court should conduct the proceedings after all pleadings are complete.

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Earlier during the proceeding in the Supreme Court, Sibal read out the details of exhibits filed by the contesting defendants in the Allahabad High Court.

He told the three-judge bench in the Supreme Court that all the pleadings were not complete.

Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Tushar Mehta who is representing the State of Uttar Pradesh negated the arguments presented by Kapil Sibal. He told the Supreme Court that all the related documents and requisite translation copies are on record.

Raising doubts over ASG Mehta, Sibal questioned how come more than 19,000 pages of documents can be filed in such short time.

Sibal told the Supreme Court that he and other petitioners have not been served relevant documents of pleadings.

Meanwhile, the petitioners who had filed their pleadings in Allahabad High Court, have asked the Supreme Court for a reasonable time to translate, file and serve the copies of all the exhibits and relevant documents.

Kapil Sibal, Rajiv Dhawan along with other petitioner counsels have also demanded for a larger bench of judges. They have demanded a bench of at least seven judges.

(With inputs from ANI)