New Delhi : The Supreme Court today said it will decide in January the date for the hearing on the Ayodhya land dispute case. It also adjourned till the winter month the hearing on a batch of pleas challenging the Allahabad High Court's 2010 verdict that divided into three parts the disputed land on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid area in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya.
Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, in today's hearing that ended in four minutes, said an appropriate bench will fix a date for the hearing, meaning the court may not necessarily hear the pleas in January itself, barely months away from the general elections.We will fix the date of hearing of Ayodhya dispute case before the appropriate bench in January, a top court bench also including Justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph said today.