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Apex Court rebuked & imposed fines on PILs claiming artifacts, stone figurines from Ram Janmabhoomi Temple site be conserved

 

 

 

New Delhi, July 21, 2020: The Supreme Court on Monday rebuked and imposed hefty fines on two PIL petitioners for attempting to create 'nonsense' by claiming that artifacts and stone figurines from the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple site at Ayodhya depicted an ancient culture which could be prior to Hinduism and that the artefacts and monuments reportedly discovered during the digging and land levelling in preparation for the temple construction at Ayodhya should be conserved, without even giving an opportunity to the counsel of the petitioners to explain their prayers, the bench saw nothing wrong in attributing motives to the petitioners.

 

Even though Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta agreed that such artefacts would be preserved, the bench had problems with the so-called motives of the petitioners.

 

The Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra, Justices Arun Mishra, B.R. Gavai and Krishna Murari interpreting the petitions as disguised attempts to “revive” the Ayodhya dispute, which was legally settled by the Supreme Court’s judgment on November 9 last year, the bench imposed costs of Rs 1 lakh each on the petitioners, to be deposited with the Supreme Court Employees’ Mutual Welfare Fund within one month. One of the petitioners’ counsels, Menaka Guruswamy, pleaded with the bench not to impose the fine in vain.

 

The Supreme Court Bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra was so anguished by the 'frivolity' of the two PILs - one filed by members of Samyak Vishwa Sangh and the other by Dr Ambedkar Bodhikunj Foundation - that it did not give senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy to put forth the points she wanted to canvass for petitioners.

 

Although the bench orally threatened the petitioners with an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation against them, the order issued is silent on it.

 

The bizarre outcome of this case is that after denying an opportunity to the petitioners’ counsel to make their preliminary submissions – in other words in the absence of any arguments on the merits of the matter – the bench has come out with a five-pages order, which is very unusual. Had the petitioners been allowed to make their submissions, perhaps, they would have allayed some of the bench’s apprehensions.

 

The petitioners include four individuals from the Samyak Vishwa Sangh, an NGO in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra which is dedicated to the study of ancient caves, monuments, antiquities and artefacts throughout India. It is registered under the Bombay Public Trust Act and the Societies Registration Act.   The main petition in Satish Chindhuji Shambharkar and Others v Union of India was filed by these four individuals.

 

Dr. Ambedkar Bodhi Kunja Foundation, based in Munger, Bihar is another petitioner, which made a similar plea, as it is concerned with the conservation of artefacts which might reveal Buddhist influences during the ancient period. The petitions of both these organisations had been duly vetted, defects cured, and found in order, by the Supreme Court’s registry.  

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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