Ayodhya Verdict Delayed

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LUCKNOW, INDIA (Gaea Times.com) - The Ayodhya verdict which was scheduled to be delivered on Friday 24 September has now been postponed for five days. A plea will be heard on 28 September Tuesday. The plea has been made by Ramesh Chand Tripathi on the ground that the verdict can lead to communal violence and it seems that the court agrees with it or else the verdict would have been delivered on the said date. A notice has been issued by the court to the parties concerned and to the attorney general as well thereby giving the center the right to present its views. Though Ramesh Chand Tripathi is stressing that the issue be settled through reconciliation, the parties involved in the dispute say that a compromise is no longer possible.

The issue is 60 year old and it appears highly unlikely that an issue which could not be settled through mutual understanding in six decades will be settled in five days. In case a verdict this month is not passed the whole trial may have to be reconducted with the Ayodhya verdict being delayed further as one of the judges from the Lucknow bench will be retiring at the end of this month.

The issue is a very sensitive issue and heavy security measures have been taken into consideration for the verdict besides the repeated plea by the government to maintain peace and order. The oldest litigant in the case who happens to a be 90 year old by the name of Mohammed Hashim Ansari said that Muslims not only in India but also across the globe are ready to accept the decision of the court in the Ayodhya verdict irrespective of whether it goes in there favor or not.