Babri Masjid Verdict: Popular Front of India files Review Petition in Supreme Court
New Delhi: Challenging the Constitution Bench judgment of the Supreme Court in the Babri Masjid title suit, North Zone Secretary of Popular Front of India Anis Ansari filed the review petition in the Supreme Court on Monday 9 December 2019.
The decision to file review petition was taken by the National Executive Council of the organization in its meeting held on 15 & 16 of November.
"The petition seeks justice from the apex court on the basis of concrete historical facts and evidences. In the judgment itself, the Supreme Court noted without equivocation that the Babri Masjid was vandalized twice, first in 1949 when it was desecrated and idol was placed under the central dome and second in 1992 when a mob of hooligans demolished the Masjid. Still the Court showed to subside these facts and decided to handover the land to the perpetrators who trespassed and later demolished the Babri Masjid. The petitioner submitted that the operative part of the judgment is contradictory to the points observed and upheld by the Court and hence it has to be reconsidered and reviewed" an official press statement from PFI stated.
"The relief granted acts as a conspicuous insinuation towards accepting the crimes committed by the miscreants be it placement of idols in the Masjid or demolishing it, whilst the court has acknowledged in the same judgment that those acts were illegal" the press statement added.
PFI also asserted that the judgement tends to reduce the fundamental principle of criminal jurisprudence, i.e., Commodum Ex Injuria Sua Nemo Habere Debet (a wrongdoer should not be enabled by law to take any advantage from his actions). It strengthens the said acts to find sustainability in the realm of legality.
The petition also sought an open court hearing of the plea to review the judgment, to stay the operation of the judgment as well as the previous judgment passed by the Allahabad high court in 2010 and to restrain the Central Government from taking any steps pursuant to the judgment of Supreme Court.
"Popular Front of India has been raising voice for justice to Babri Masjid since the very inception of the organization. In 2011, Popular Front filed the impleading petition in Supreme Court challenging the Allahabad high court judgment; but unfortunately it was not accepted citing that we were not the party before the Allahabad High Court. Recently after Sabarimala case verdict, the Supreme Court has accepted review petitions of many devotees as they were the affected party", said Popular Front National Executive Council member Adv Mohammad Yusuf. He hoped that on same grounds, the Supreme Court would accept the pleas of both original parties and the affected parties in Babri Masjid title suit.
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South African police arrest suspect in mass shooting that killed 12, including 3 children
Johannesburg (AP): A 32-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with a mass shooting which claimed the lives of 12 people including three children at an unlicensed pub earlier this month, South African police said on Monday.
The man is suspected of being one of the three people who opened fire on patrons in a pub at Saulsville township, west of South Africa's capital Pretoria, killing 12 people including three children aged 3, 12 and 16.
At least 13 people were also injured during the attack, whose motive remains unknown.
According to the police, the suspect was arrested on Sunday while traveling to Botlokwa in Limpopo province, more than 340 km from where the mass shooting took place on Dec 6.
An unlicensed firearm believed to have been used during the attack was recovered from the suspect's vehicle.
“The 32-year-old suspect was intercepted by Limpopo Tracking Team on the R101 Road in Westenburg precinct. During the arrest, the team recovered an unlicensed firearm, a hand gun, believed to have been used in the commission of the multiple murders. The firearm will be taken to the Forensic Science Laboratory for ballistic analysis,” police said in statement.
The suspect was arrested on the same day that another mass shooting at a pub took place in the Bekkersdal township, west of Johannesburg, in which nine people were killed and 10 wounded when unknown gunmen opened fire on patrons.
Police have since launched a search for the suspects.
South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world and recorded more than 26,000 homicides in 2024 — an average of more than 70 a day. Firearms are by far the leading cause of death in homicides.
The country of 62 million people has relatively strict gun ownership laws, but many killings are committed with illegal guns, according to authorities.
According to police, mass shootings at unlicensed bars are becoming a serious problem. Police shut down more than 11,000 illegal taverns between April and September this year and arrested more than 18,000 people for involvement in illegal liquor sales.
