Face of Nation : The crucial day-to-day hearing in the politically sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case in the Supreme Court will enter the fifth day on Tuesday with the counsel for the deity, ‘Ram Lalla Virajman’, recommencing arguments for claim over the entire 2.77 acres of disputed land in Ayodhya.
The hearing before a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, assumes significance following its query on Friday as to whether anyone from the ‘Raghuvansha’ (descendants of Lord Ram) dynasty still resides in Ayodhya.
“We are just wondering if anyone from the ‘Raghuvansha’ dynasty is still living there (at Ayodhya),” the bench, also comprising Justices SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer, had said.
After such claims from Rajasthan’s erstwhile royal family of Mewar as well, state Congress spokesperson Satendra Raghav on Monday also claimed that his family descended from Ram. “The Raghav Rajputs are the real descendants of Ram,” he said.
On the fourth day of the hearing, Parasaran had responded to the Supreme Court’s query as to how the ‘Janmasthanam’ (birth place of deity) can be regarded as a “juristic person” having stakes as a litigant in the case.
“The idol is not necessary in the Hinduism for a place to be regarded as a temple,” he had said, adding, “Hindus do not worship gods in any definite form, rather they worship them as divine incarnation having no form.”
Earlier, the bench had asked the counsel for the deity as to how the birth place of Ram can be regarded as a “juristic person” having stakes as a litigant in the case. It had 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. However, it had asked as to how ‘Janamsthanam’ can file the case in the land dispute as party. Parasaran had said that even the birth place of the deity can be considered as a juristic person.
