The decision on the Ayodhya Land Dispute Case will be delayed as the Supreme Court has said it will first decide whether the Apex Court’s 1994 decision that a “mosque is not an essential part of Islam” needs to be re-examined by a constitution bench. A bench of Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra and Justices' Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer said it would examine whether a five-judge bench was required to go into the question of whether a mosque was integral to Islam, but they turned down the demand that the 70-year-old legal battle between Hindu and Muslim communities over ownership of the nearly 3 acres of Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi disputed land be also referred to a larger bench.
