Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday suggested for an out-of-court settlement of Babri Masjid and Ram Mandir dispute. The court conducted a hearing of the petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party's Subramanian Swamy. "An amicable settlement of the Ayodhya Ramjanmabh-oomi-Babri Masjid dispute was a better course than on insisting on judicial pronouncement," a bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said as reported by India Today.
"The matter involves sentiments on both sides. It should be settled amicably between the disputing parties... The Supreme Court will come in the picture of you can t settle the dispute outside the court," the apex court said.
The petitioner had pleaded for the constitution of a bench to hear a batch of petitions challenging a 2010 Allahabad High Court order which propsed a partition of the Ayodhya land between the parties. Justice Khehar told Swamy: "Any person of your choice. You want me to mediate (but) I will not hear (on judicial side). You want my brother (Judge). There are issues. You all sit together across the table and decide.".
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