NEW DELHI: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Sunday shared his private expertise coping with the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute and stated that he prayed to God for an answer.
Throughout a felicitation ceremony in his native village of Kanhersar, CJI revealed that he had sought divine intervention to discover a decision to the complicated case that had been earlier than him for 3 months.
“Fairly often we now have instances (to adjudicate) however we do not arrive at an answer. One thing comparable occurred through the Ayodhya (Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute) which was in entrance of me for 3 months. I sat earlier than the deity and informed him he must discover a resolution,” information company PTI quoted CJI as saying.
“Consider me, when you’ve got religion, God will all the time discover a approach,” he asserted.
CJI Chandrachud was a part of the five-judge bench, headed by then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, that delivered the historic verdict on November 9, 2019. The bench settled the long-standing dispute by paving the best way for the development of the Ram temple in Ayodhya whereas additionally ruling {that a} mosque could be constructed on an alternate five-acre plot in the identical metropolis.
CJI Chandrachud had additionally visited the Ram Temple in Ayodhya in July this yr and provided prayers. The idol consecration of the temple happened on January 22, 2023, within the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
