Ayodhya Case: Top Court Asks How Birth Place Can Be Party To Land Dispute

The Supreme Court Thursday asked ‘RamRamRam Lalla Virajman’, one of the parties in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute at Ayodhya, as to how the ‘Janmasthanam’ (birthplace of deity) can be regarded as a “juristic person” having stakes as a litigant in the case.

The apex court, hearing the case on the third day, said that so far as Hindu deities are concerned, they have been legally treated as juristic person which can hold properties and institute, defend and intervene in lawsuits.

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, however, asked senior advocate K Parasaran, appearing for ‘Ram Lalla Virajman’ which itself is a party, as to how ‘Janamsthanam’ can file the case in the land dispute as party.