New Delhi: India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday set February 26 as the hearing date in the politically sensitive Ram temple-Babri masjid Ayodhya land dispute.
The case will be heard by a five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
The apex court had on January 27 cancelled a hearing scheduled for January 29 as Justice S.A. Bobde, one of the five judges of the Constitution Bench, was not available that day.
Besides the Chief Justice and Justice Bobde, other members of the bench are Justices D.Y. Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S.A. Nazeer.
The bench will hear the appeals against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgment, delivered in four civil suits, that the 1.1-hecatare land in Ayodhya be partitioned equally among three parties — the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.