2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute

2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute
2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute
Court	Supreme Court of India
Full case name	M Siddiq (D) Thr Lrs v. Mahant Suresh Das & Ors
Decided	9 November 2019
Citation(s)
Case history
Appealed from	High Court of Allahabad
Appealed to	Supreme Court of India
Subsequent action(s)	See below
Court membership
Judges sitting	Ranjan Gogoi (CJI),; Sharad Arvind Bobde, ; DY Chandrachud,; Ashok Bhushan,; S. Abdul Nazeer
Case opinions
Decision by	Joint opinion of 5 judges

The final judgement in the Ayodhya dispute was declared by the Supreme Court of India on 9 November 2019.^[4] The Supreme Court ordered the disputed land (2.77 acres) to be handed over to a trust (to be created by the government of India) to build the Ram Janmabhoomi (revered as the birthplace of Hindu deity, Rama) temple. The court also ordered the government to give an alternative 5 acres of land in another place to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board for the purpose of building a mosque as a replacement for the demolished Babri Masjid.

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