RAM Lalla will be enthroned in his permanent abode ending an "exile" of five centuries, but the three 'next friends' of the deity who represented Him in various courts during legal battles since 1989 are no more.
Under Indian laws, a deity is deemed to be an individual entity and like a firm or a trust can contest its own case. The deity (Ram Lalla Virajman) is a perpetual minor and needed a 'next friend' to represent Him in court.
On November 9, 2019, when the Supreme Court delivered the verdict over the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute, Ram Lalla Virajman was declared as the owner of the 2.77 acre land in Ayodhya, delighting his 'next friend' Triloki Nath Pandey, who was aged 75 years. He was observing a (nirjal) fast (without drinking water) which he ended after the pronouncement of the judgment.
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