Muslim Law Board To File Review Plea Against Ayodhya Verdict

Declines five acres allotted to Muslims, says it will ‘not heal the wounds caused’

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) on Sunday declined the five acres of land allotted to Muslims in Ayodhya and decided to file a review petition against the Supreme Court verdict in the Babri MasjidRam Janmabhoomi case.

The “restitution by granting five acres of land, where fundamental values have been damaged to the extent of causing national shame, will not in any manner heal the wounds caused,” the Board said here, after a meeting of its working committee, chaired by president Maulana Sayyad Mohammad Rabe Hassani Nadwi.

The two decisions were taken through a “unanimous resolution,” Board secretary Zafaryab Jilani told the media.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hindu president Arshad Madni also issued a statement in favour of filing a review petition and argued that there was no question of taking up any alternative land for a mosque.

‘Not permissible’

The Board argued that mosques “are essential for the religious practice of Muslims” and that “building the same mosque at some other site in situations like this is also not permissible as per Islamic Law.”