High Court’s Ayodhya verdict: A ‘legal’ hope

The Allahabad High Court’s Ayodhya verdict - a classic case of “judicial statesmanship” has refused to endorse the fact that justice is about absolute legal proprietary to title suit, where the court balances the case merely on the basis of evidences and existing facts - how many of us believe.

With highest respect for both the religions and their faith, who could better adjudge the lasting solution or rather a better solution? It’s an opportunity for us – let’s make it a place of convergence of both the religions to move on for a better future.

Surprised! Yes, none – the Government, BJP, RSS or say for that matter even the litigants of the case did not expect this judgment – which may have “superseded the established set legal framework of the judiciary”. After all, it was no one’s case to divide the disputed site equally into three parts – Beholders of the area of Ram's birth place, Nirmohi Akhara and the Sunni Waqf Board. Critics say it’s more of a settlement than a judgment – where faith has overruled the fact.

However, the verdict takes a ‘middle path’ to pacify both ideologies and belief of the Hindus and Muslims for a mutual existence, to uphold peace and integral fabric of compassion and unity. It’s no one’s victory or loss – a fact that most of us today accept as a mature being, society and a nation.

Irrespective of the wisdom that prevailed on the judges, this landmark judgment couldn’t have asked for anything more. The majority verdict has opened a new hope to the path of reconciliation. Although, there’s a legal option to ‘fight’ the case in the Supreme Court, an effort must be made to settle the dispute amicably by mutual consent of both the communities with full support of all the political parties and the Government.

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