Mediation Fruitless, SC to Begin Ayodhya Hearing From August 6

A day after receiving a sealed progress report from the three-member panel constituted to amicably mediate on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babdri Masjid land dispute case, the Supreme Court held on Friday that the process has failed to yield any results.
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, heading the five-judge constitutional bench, said that hearing of the Ayodhya case will begin on August 6 again and will be held on a day-to-day basis.
Bar and Bench reported that the order was passed by the full bench comprising Gogoi and Justices S.A. Bobde, D.Y. Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S. Abdul Nazeer.
A bench had, on July 18, asked the panel to inform the court about the outcome of the mediation proceedings as on July 31 by August 1 to enable it to proceed further in the matter.

The bench had earlier sought and perused a report about the progress of mediation till July 18. Earlier on July 11, it had asked for the first progress report on the mediation and said that a day-to-day hearing might commence from July 25 if the court decided to conclude mediation proceedings.
The mediation panel was headed by retired Supreme Court judge Fakir Mohammad Ibrahim Kalifulla and comprised spiritual guru and founder of the Art of Living Foundation Sri Sri Ravishankar and senior advocate and renowned mediator Sriram Panchu.
It had passed the July 11 order while hearing an application filed by a legal heir of one of the original litigants, Gopal Singh Visharad, seeking a judicial decision on the dispute and conclusion of the mediation process, alleging that not much was happening there. The mediation panel had earlier been granted time till August 15 by the apex court for completion of mediation after its earlier report had said that the mediators were “optimistic” about an amicable solution.
 

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