The judgement by Justices Dhananjay Chandrachud and M.R. Shah also hauled the petitioners for filing the review petitions, after the retirement of Justices Madan Lokur and Deepak Gupta, who chaired the SC bench which in their order in 2018 had scrapped the renewal process, stopping all fresh excavation of ore in the coastal state.
The Supreme Court had granted the ownership of the 2.77 acres of disputed land in Ayodhya to the Hindus for the construction of a temple and ruled that the Muslims will get 5 acres of land at an alternative site.
The Supreme Court on December 14 last year gave a clean chit to the Centre on the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France.
The larger bench will decide religious issues relating to Sabarimala, entry of women into mosques, practice of female genital mutilation, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said.
On September 28, last year, a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by then CJI Dipak Misra, lifted the ban on the entry of women of menstrual age into the temple sparking widespread protests across Kerala.
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by the then Chief Justice Misra had on September 28 last year junked the age-old tradition of the Lord Ayyappa temple by a majority verdict of 4:1.
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by the then Chief Justice Misra had on September 28 last year junked the age-old tradition of the Lord Ayyappa temple by a majority verdict of 4:1.
