By TCN News,
New Delhi: Welcoming the Supreme Court’s stay order against the Allahabad High Court’s verdict on the Babri Masjid title suit, several Human rights activists have termed it as a fine beginning that inspires confidence in the prospect of this larger judicial exercise.
“We heartily welcome Supreme Court order staying the September 30, 2010 judgment of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya issue. The Supreme Court’s observation that it found the High Court verdict “strange and surprising” sums up, as it were, the irrationality and unreality of a judgment that clashes with the first principles of India’s secular Constitution and seems to have been written for a pre-secular, pre-constitutional medieval age preoccupied with the allegories of faith” reads a statement signed by eminent human and civil rights activists.
They also criticized the section of civil society that termed the Allahabad High Court verdict the best solution. “The Supreme Court’s critique of the High Court judgment should also serve to alert those sections of civil society and the polity who had somehow managed to persuade themselves of the ‘practical justice’ of the act of judicial trifurcation or partition of the disputed site and had virtually commended it as the ultimate solution to a long-vexed problem” it added.
“We look forward to a comprehensive reconsideration by the Supreme Court of all the premises and postulates of the High Court judgment. SC’s interim order and the observations made constitute a fine beginning and inspire confidence in the prospect of this larger judicial exercise,” said the statement signed by Anupam Gupta, Dr. KM Shrimali, Mahesh Bhatt. Prof. KN Panikkar, Prof. Rooprekha Verma and Shabnam Hashmi.