The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked BJP leader Subramanian Swamy to seek listing of his plea for exercising his fundamental right to pray at the disputed birthplace of Lord Rama in Ayodhya after pronouncement of its verdict on the question whether a mosque is integral to Islam.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud gave the suggestion when Swamy sought urgent hearing.
The court, on July 20, reserved its judgement on a plea by Muslim groups in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit for reconsideration by a larger bench, a 1994 five-judge bench observation that a mosque was not integral to Islam.
Swamy, at whose instance the sensitive Ayodhya case was fast-tracked, had filed a petition stating that he had a fundamental right to offer hassle-free prayer at the birthplace of Lord Ram.
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