LAWS(SC)-1994-10-36

M ISMAIL FARUQUI MOHD ASLAM HARGYAN SINGH THAKUR VIJAY RAGHO BHAGWAN BIRAJMANMANDIR JAMIAT ULAMA E HIND Vs. UNION OF INDIA

Decided On October 24, 1994
M.ISMAIL FARUQUI Appellant
V/S
UNION OF INDIA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. " Jonathan Swift Swami Vivekananda said:

(2.) The constitutional validity of the Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya Act, 1993 (No. 33 of 3993 (hereinafter referred to as 'act No. 33 of 1993' or 'the Act') and the maintainability of Special Reference no. 1 of 1993 (hereinafter referred to as "the Special Reference") made by the President of India under Article 143 (1 of the Constitution of India are the questions for decision herein. The background in which these questions are to be answered is contained in the facts stated in the White Paper on Ayodhya, February 1993, issued by the government of India.

(3.) Certain undisputed facts emerging at the hearing may also have relevance for this purpose. These questions are answered on this basis, eschewing facts which are in the area of controversy and have yet to be adjudicated.