Ayodhya ruling legitimizes 'pluralism': the head of the Jamaat

Over 100 Muslim celebrities and celebrities, as well as the Waqf Board Review have opposed the petition

New delhi date. December 2, 2019, Monday

Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind has now filed a review petition in the Supreme Court on the verdict given by the Supreme Court in Ayodhya. The petitioners have argued that the ruling did not bring justice to the Muslims.

Although many Muslim artists, including Shabana Azmi, Nasiruddin Shah, urged the Muslim community not to file any review petition, the Muslim organization Jamiat-Ulema-e-Hind has filed several legal petition in the Supreme Court amidst these circumstances. Will be presented to the court.

The points cited in the review petition filed in the Supreme Court suggest that the Supreme Court's observation that Hindus worshiped in the courtyard of the mosque before 1857 is not correct. Even the Supreme Court's statement that the interior courtyard was occupied by Muslims between 1857 and 1949 is not correct.

It is also not correct to say that the Muslim party has failed to prove that it is their possession. The Supreme Court said that the ASI report states that the mosque was not built on a flat ground but in a place where the mosque was formerly a memorial or idol of Hindu deities.

The petitioners argued that both the Muslim and Hindu parties presented evidence in their own way that only the evidence of the Hindus was taken into account while the evidence of the Muslim parties was ignored. The Supreme Court said that Hindus used to worship there without any controversy, though the facts were not known.

Besides, the decision to give five acres of land to Muslim parties is also not appropriate. Nearly every issue the Supreme Court presented was opposed by Muslim parties. It is noteworthy that throughout this matter, the Sunni Waqf Board made it clear that we would not file any review petition.

The head of Jamiat denied that the Muslim community was protesting the re-review of the Ayodhya ruling. The All India Muslim Personal Law Board also claimed that 99 percent of the Muslim community favors a re-review of the Ayodhya verdict.