Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind will be filing a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, said Jamiat chief Maulana Arshad Madani on Sunday after a meeting of the board.
He said that though they knew their review petition will be dismissed “100 per cent”, they will file it as it was their “right”.
Madani was attending a meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). "Despite the fact that we already know that our review petition will be dismissed 100 per cent, we must file a review petition. It is our right."
Hours after the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute on November 9, Zafaryab Jilani of the AIMPLB—the lawyer to the litigant Sunni Waqf Board—had said they respected the verdict, but would seek a review. "We respect the verdict, but the judgment is not satisfactory. There should be no demonstration of any kind anywhere on it.
"We will file a review petition if our committee agrees on it. It is our right and it is in Supreme Court's rules as well," he had said.
The Supreme Court had, in a historic verdict, backed the construction of a Ram temple by a trust at the disputed site in Ayodhya, and ruled that an alternative five-acre plot must be found for a mosque in the Hindu holy town.
