Ayodhya case: SC directs UP govt to provide security to Wakf Board chief

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ANI | Updated: Oct 14, 2019 23:42 ISTNew Delhi [India], Oct 14 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Monday directed the government of Uttar Pradesh
to provide security to Sunni Wakf Board Chairman Zufar Ahmad Farooqui after he apprehended a threat to his life.Farooqi had informed the
five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court that he feared for his life through Sriram Panchu, one of the mediators in the Ayodhya
Ramjanmabhoomi-Babari Masjid case.Earlier today, the Sunni Central Waqf Board had told the court that it possesses the impugned land."We
have been in possession throughout
There is nothing to suggest or show that the plaintiff (Nirmohi Akahara and others) are the proprietor of the disputed land in question,"
Rajeev Dhavan, representing the Waqf Board, told the bench.The counsel had said that there is no proof from the Archaeological Survey of
India (ASI) to ascertain that a temple was destroyed to build the mosque at the impugned site.A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI)
Ranjan Gogoi was hearing appeals challenging the 2010 Allahabad High Court verdict, which ordered equal division of the 2.77-acre disputed
land in Ayodhya among the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and the Ram Lalla.The 16th-century Babri Masjid was demolished on December 6,
1992.The top court had recently said that it would wrap up hearing the case on October 17, a day earlier than it was scheduled to, thus
leaving merely three days of active hearing now
The judgment on the same will be passed on November 4-5
(ANI)