Top Court Starts Hearings on India’s Contentious Ayodhya Dispute

Source: Bloomberg

 
 
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India’s Supreme Court today started hearing final arguments by religious groups over ownership of land in the northern city of Ayodhya where the razing of a 16th-century mosque in 1992 had triggered religious riots.

Over a dozen individuals and groups have challenged a lower court’s judgment that divided the disputed 2.77 acre property between Muslim and Hindu groups. In 2011 the Supreme Court suspended a 2010 Allahabad High Court ruling that ordered a split which would have given a Muslim group one-third of the land and Hindu groups two-thirds.

Hindu groups have said the mosque was built over the ruins of a temple that marked the birthplace of their god, Lord Ram.

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  1. As Muslims can pray anywhere and everywhere why not give up the claim and let the Hindus have their birthplace of their God …

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