Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud has said that during the proceedings in the Ram Janam-bhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute case, which was decided by the Supreme Court in 2019, he sought help from God to arrive at a solution.
Speaking to the residents of his native Kanhersar village in Maharashtra’s Khed taluka during his felicitation ceremony on Sunday, the CJI mentioned the case M Siddiq v Mahant Suresh Das, commonly known as the Ayodhya dispute, stating that it was difficult to arrive at a solution in the matter.
Media reports quoted the CJI as saying that during the proceedings, which lasted for about three months, he sat before the deity and asked him to find a solution.
He further said that God always found a way if a person had faith.
On November 9, 2019, the five-judge Bench of then CJI Ranjan Gogoi, Justice SA Bobde, Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice S Abdul Nazeer and Justice DY Chandrachud had delivered the verdict in the matter.
The Apex Court, while noting that the placing of idols inside the Babri Masjid mosque and the destruction of the Masjid in 1992 were illegal acts, allowed the construction of the Ram Temple at the site where the Masjid stood before it was demolished.
As compensation for the unlawful destruction of the Masjid, the five-judge Bench had allotted five acres of land at an alternative site for the construction of a new mosque.
Speaking during another event on Saturday, the CJI said that everyone must play their part in protecting communities, as climate change affected not only affluent societies, but also the most marginalised ones.
He said it may not necessarily be the doing of a person or community of a particular region, but it was time to take responsibility as inheritors of the actions done by previous societies across the world in their pursuit of industrialisation and greenhouse gas emissions.