Ayodhya case: SC opines ASI report not an ordinary opinion; inferences drawn by cultivated minds

27 Sep 2019 Evaluate

According to Supreme Court (SC), the ASI report of 2003 on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site was not an ‘ordinary opinion’ as the archaeologists was acting on behalf of the Allahabad High Court judges to give their views on the excavated material.

A 5-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, said the inferences from the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) report were drawn by ‘cultivated and studied minds’. The apex court's observation came when senior lawyer Meenakshi Arora, appearing for the Muslim parties, told the apex court that the ASI report was ‘merely an opinion’ of archeologists which needed to be supported by substantial proof to establish that a Ram temple already existed at the disputed site at Ayodhya. Arora told the bench that the report cannot be held to be a ‘substantive proof’.

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