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Outgoing chief justice SA Bobde wanted Shah Rukh Khan to mediate Ayodhya dispute, says SC lawyer

| @indiablooms | Apr 24, 2021, at 05:09 am

New Delhi/IBNS: Outgoing Chief Justice of India SA Bobde wanted superstar Shah Rukh Khan to mediate the Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute, an anecdote dropped during a virtual farewell event revealed on Friday.

The actor had even agreed to resolve the dispute but the plan didn't work out.

This was revealed by Vikas Singh, the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, during his tribute to Justice Bobde.

"Justice Bobde asked me whether Shah Rukh Khan was willing to mediate in the Ayodhya dispute. I spoke with SRK and he was happy to be in the mediation but unfortunately, mediation did not work," Singh said with Justice Bobde in attendance.

The three members appointed by the Supreme Court for the mediation panel were former top court judge FMI Kalifulla, spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar and senior lawyer Sriram Panchu.

The mediation panel failed to reach any conclusion after which Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi had decided that the case would be heard by the Supreme Court.

In the 2019 landmark ruling, the Supreme Court handed over the site in Ayodhya, claimed by both Hindus and Muslims for decades, for the building of a Ram temple.

The apex court ordered that Muslims be given alternative land for a mosque.

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