Advocates Appeared:
For Appellant(s) [CA 10866-67/10] :Rajeev Dhavan, Ejaz Maqbool, Shahid Nadeem, Akriti Chaubey, Qurratulain, Gautam Prabhakar, Kunwar Aditya Singh, Siddhi Padia, Advocates
For CA 4768-4771/11 :K. Parasaran, C.S. Vaidyanathan, Bhupender Yadav, P. V. Yogeswaran, P.K. Singh, Aditi, Anirudh Sharma, Amit Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Pranav Kumar, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Babul Kumar, Y. Lokesh, Akshay Nagarajan, P. Abinesh Karthik, Aman Jha, Anil Hooda, Ajay Sharma, Gobind Kumar, Advocates
For CA 2636/11 :Vikas Singh, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Vivek Sharma, Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Ajay Amritraj, Rajesh Raina, Abhinav Goyal, Dawneesh Shakti Vats, Ritu Raj, Amit Kumar, Dinesh Mudgal, Krishna Kant, Kanishka Sing, Pallav Mongia, Narendra Kumar, S.K. Verma, Utkarsh Kashyap, Saayan Kunal, Priyambica M. Jha, Deepeika Kalia, Baldev Atreya, Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Satwik Misra, Sachin Pahwa, Sanjiv Kalia, Advocates
For CA 821/11 :Pradeep Kumar Yadav, Shakil Ahmed Syed, Abhishek Krishna, Rubina Jawed, Advocates
For CA 4739/11 :Hari Shankar Jain, Vishnu Shankar Jain, Sachin Pahwa, Pankaj Verma, Vaishnavi Ranjana, Advocates
For CA 4739/11 :Varinder Kumar Sharma, Bhavanishankar V. Gadnis, Vishwanath B. Gadnis, Radni V. Gadnis, Pramod Kumar Singh, Vijay Pal, Mahendra Kumar, Dileep Kumar Mishra, Mahendra Singh, Shantanu Sharma, Ram Shiromani Yadav, Varun Thakur, B.S. Rajesh Agrajit, Dipti Singh, Shyamal Kumar, Manjeet Pathak, Rupali, Varun Jamwal, Jyoti Rana, Jatin Nagar, Parul Jamwal, Amit Kumar, Sujeet Kumar, Balraj Singh Malik, Sunil Kumar Tomar, Bitu Kumar Singh, P.K. Singh, Shantanu Sharma, Rajesh Singh Chauhan, R.S. Rana, Samdarshi Sanjay, Bishwajeet Singh, Reena Patel, Dipti Singh, Vinay Ojha, Vinay Ojha, Rajesh Kumar Chaurasia, Parul Sharma, Rakesh K. Mudgal, Kailash C. Mudgal, Alok K. Sharma, Om Parkash Shukla, Asutosh Sharma, Keshav Thakur, Aseem Katoch, T.Mahipal, Sukumar, R.R. Rajesh, S.Muthukrishnan, Rajan Kumar Chourasia, Manoj Kumar Sharma, Gunjan Sharma, Harish Pandey, Vijay Pal, Y.K. Prasad, Amit Kumar, Akhilesh Pandey, Advocates
For CA 4739/11 :Antariksh Singh, Sujit Kumar Jha, Akash Kumar Singh, Uday Prakash Yadav, Girjesh Pandey, Alpana Pandey, Rajesh Kumar, Ramjee Pandey, Amit Sharma, Hemant Sharma, Nabhanya Sharma, Chandrika Mishra, Piyush Nath, Anoop Bose, Nabhanya Sharma, K.K. Chauhan, Alok Singh, Amarendra P. Yadav, Adv Narayan R. Panicker, Abhishek Singh, Chandra Pratap Singh, Advocates
For CA 4905-4908/11 :Sushil Kumar Jain, Puneet Jain, Tarun Verma, Arun Sharma, Christi Jain, Neeraj Gupta, Harsh Jain, Harshil Khanduja, Abhinav Gupta, Parmod Thakre, Shailendra Sharma, Manoj Gorkela, Ram Shrivastav, Pratibha Jain, Shekhar Kumar, Chandan Kumar Mandal, Ompal Singh, Bhanu Priya Sharma, Ranjeet Lal Verma, Arun K. Sharma, Tarunjeet Verma, Varun Sharma, Abhinav Deshwal, Shailendra Sharma, Baijnath Patel, Sweta, Romila, Siddharth Bansal, Advocates
For CA 2215/11 :Zafaryab Jilani, Ejaz Maqbool, Akriti Chaubey, Qurratulain, Mohd. Nizamuddin Pasha, Kunwar Aditya Singh, Advocates
For CA 4740/11 :Ranjit Kumar, D. Bharat Kumar, Yash Mishra, Ankit Raj, Indira Bhakhar, Rajesh Singh, Vineet Pandey, Nidhi Jaiswal, Santosh Kumar, T. Bhaskar Gowtham, Ashwin Kumar, Kumar Mihir, Srishti Mishra, Ruchi Kohli, Advocates
For CA 2894/11 :Meenakshi Arora, M. R. Shamshad, Nizampasha, Zaki Ahmad Khan, Aditya Samaddar, Sarah Haque, Bhabna Das, Rashmi Singh, Chitra Vats, Advocates
For CA 6965/11 :P.N. Mishra, Ranjana Agnihotri, Sangeeta Mandal, Mamta Tiwari, Swati Sinha, Taruna A. Prasad, Savinder Singh, Vijay Kumar, Sukanya Basu, Shimantika Mandal, For M/s. Fox Mandal & Co., Advocates
For CA 4192/11 :Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, Zeeshan Rizvi, Imtiaz Ahmad, Rashid Saeed, Anas Zaidi, Aftab Ali Khan, Advocates
For CA 5498/11 :Irshad Ahmad, Advocates
For CA 7226/11 :Zafaryab Jilani, M. R. Shamshad, Nizampasha, Zaki Ahmad Khan, Aditya Samaddar, Sarah Haque, Advocates
For CA 8096/11 :Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, M. Tayyab Khan, Mujeebuddin Khan, S. Mansoor Ali, Ali Safeer Farooqi, Syed Imtiyaz Ali, Ch. Helaluddin, Mumtaz Alam Siddiqui, Vikas Singh Jangra, Samar Vijay Singh, Amit Kumar Pathak, Pawan Kishore Singh, Sangita Rai, Raj Kumar Choudhary, Advocates
For the Respondents:Tushar Mehta, SG Vikramjeet Banerjee, ASG Aishwarya Bhati, Rajat Nair, Kanu Agrawal, Swati Ghildayal, Manan Popli, Rajeev Ranjan, Varun Chugh, Shantanu Sharma, Piyush Beriwal, B.V. Balram Das, Bhuwan Kapoor, Surender Kumar Gupta, Nivesh Kumar, Aviral Kapoor, Shagufa Salim, G.S. Makker, Bhavanishankar, N.M. Popli, S.M. Popli, B. Krishna Prasad, Tushar Mehta, SG Raghvendra Singh, Gen. Madan Mohan Pandey, AAG Aishwarya Bhati, Ravindra Raizada, Vinod Diwakar, Sanjay Kumar Tyagi, S.K. Dwivedi, Rajeev Kumar Dubey, D.N. Dubey, Shashank Shekhar Singh, Alok Kumar, Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Saurav Singh Chauhan, Ashish Tiwari, Siddharth Krishna Dwivedi, Nidhi Dwivedi, Stuti Chopra, Anil Kumar Adlania, Rajesh Kumar Pandey, Kamlesh Kumar Maurya, Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Kamlendra Mishra, Farah Hashmi, Mohd. Farhan Khan, Md. Shahid Anwar, Hari Nath Tilhari, Mukesh Verma, Vivek Vishnoi, Raj Singh Rana, R.S. Tripathi, Pawan Kumar Shukla, Kamal Kumar Pandey, Pankaj Kumar Singh, Gunratan Sadavarte, Vipin Kumar Saxena, T.N. Saxena, G.P. Mahto, Sanjeet Paliwal, Vishal Tewari, Sidhinath Sengar, Krishana P. Dubey, Yash Pal Dhingra, M. R. Shamshad, Mohd. Irshad Hanif, Aarif Ali Khan, Rizwan Ahmad, Mohd. Adeel Siddiqui, Mujahid Ahmad, Sheik Moulali Basha, Tausif Ahmad Dar, Arun Kumar Maji, Danish Sher Khan, Rajiv Kumar Sinha, Shereef K.A., Abdul Rahman K.A., Ansal Ulhal, Syed Shahid Hussain Rizvi, Christi Jain, Pratibha Jain, Divya Garg, Shubham Singh, Akash Pratap Singh, Shivam Takkar, Prakash Sharma, Anuj Saxena, Prakrati Raj, Arup Banerjee, Achyut Saxena, Rajeev Dhavan, Zafaryab Jilani, Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi, Abdul Qadir, Ibad Mushtaq, Bhawar Pal Singh Jadon, Priyanka Swami, Bishnu Prasad Tiwari, Aditi Gupta, Aman Sinha, Abhishek Atrey, Vidyottama, Ajay Kumar Pandey, Sai Deepak, Ravindra Lokhande, Mukul Singh, Satya Ranjan Swain, Deepak Goel, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Kavitha K.T., Ashwani Bhardwaj, Neeraj Sharma, Umesh Babu Chaurasia, Priyanka Swami, Navneet Kumar, Vaibhav Chadha, Siddhartha Singh, Gobind Kumar, Samar Vijay Singh, Harshit Kaushik, Rahul Kumar, Surajita Pattanaik, Vivek Sharma, Neeraj Sharma, Mukesh K. Verma, Neeraj, Aisha Thakur, Surender Kumar Gupta, Mukul Singh, V.V.V.M.B.N. Pattaviram, Ayush Anand, Nachiketa Joshi, Sucheta Joshi, Aniket Seth, Prateek Chawla, Amit Kumar, Bharat Sood, Ayush Anand, Shubhendu Anand, Ankit Raj, R.K. Rajvanshi, Harshvardhan Singh Rathore, Baij Nath Patel, Baby Devi Bonia, Sunil Kumar Tomar, Gopal Jha, yasharth Kant, Udayaditya Banerjee, Sudipto Sircar, Bhav Ratan, Ankita Chaudhary, Aditya Singh, Mukul Singh, Archana Pathak Dave, G.R. Pandey, Santosh Kumar Pandey, Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Sujit Kumar, P.S. Narsimha, Bhakti Vardhan Singh, Yash Mishra, Vikas Singh Jangra, Sarthak Nayak, Shridhar Pottaraju, Ankita Sharma, Prakash Gautam, Amit Kumar Pathak, V.C. Shukla, Rahul G. Tanwani, Rishi Raj Sharma, Mr Tushar Thareja, Sayooj Mohandas, Praneet Pranav, Shivani Tushir, Sindoora VNL, Aditi Tripathi, Kanti, Prashant Singh, Rajesh Kumar, Aditi Dani, Ashwin Kumar DS, Gaichangpou Gangmei, Arjun D. Singh, Abhishek R. Shukla, Mukunda Rao Angara, Siddhartha Talukdar, Shiwani Tushir, Shweta Parihar, Gavarraju Ushasri, Yashvir Kumar, Vinshnu Thulasi Menon, Ranjit Kumar, Rishi Raj Sharma, Anish Kumar Gupta, B.N. Dubey, Devika Gulati, Kumar Gaurav, Robin Khokhar, Ritu Reniwal, Anilendra Pandey, Karunakar Mahalik, Durga Dutt, Swarupama Chaturvedi, Babita Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Aparna Trivedi, Ashutosh Mohan, Aman Jha, Ashutosh Kumar, Archana Preeti Gupta, Puneet Sheron, Nisarg Choudhary, Rita Gupta, Harsha, Chandra Shekhar Suman, Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Rajendra Kumar Singh, Jaideep Gupta, Manoj Kumar, Shweta Bharti, Awdhesh Chaubey, Shantanu Malik, Adv, Anil Kumar Tiwari, Virendra Chaubey, Ananya Baishya, Karunesh Kumar Shukla, Surajita Pattanaik, Anil Kumar, Surender Kumar, Alka Sharma, Bhawar Pal Singh Jedon, Priyanka Swami, Deepak Whora, Dhawal Uniyal, Nanendra, Amit Pawan, Vishal Shrivastava, Akshat Shrivastava, Rohit Rajshree, Ajith S. Ranganathan, Shivangi, Kiran Tiwari, Abhishek Amritanshu, Anand Nandan, Prasanna Mohan, Radhika Raman Shah, Ritu Reniwal, Mahendra Kumawat, P.N. Mishra, Ranjana Agnihotri, Sangeeta Mandal, Mamta Tiwari, Swati Sinha, Taruna A. Prasad, Savinder Singh, Vijay Kumar, Sukanya Basu, Shimantika Mandal, For M/s. Fox Mandal & Co. Rajeev Dhavan, Zafaryab Jilani, Shakil Ahmed Syed, Mohd. Parvez Dabas, Uzmi Jameel Husain, Daanish Ahmad Syed, Mohammad Noorullah, Haaris Usmani, Kanika Chauhan, Najam Zafar, Mohd. Aamir Dubas, Rubina Jawed, Ejaz Maqbool, S.P. Singh, Sudhakar Dwivedi, A. Deb Kumar, A. Deepa, Kisalya Shukla, Radha Kanta Tripathy, Rajat Vats, Kalp Raichura, Nishant Singla, Ram Badhoria, Prakash Sharma, Anuj Saxena, M.C. Dhingra, K. Parasaran, C.S. Vaidyanathan, Bhupender Yadav, P. V. Yogeswaran, P.K. Singh, Aditi, Anirudh Sharma, Amit Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Pranav Kumar, Ashish Kumar Upadhyay, Babul Kumar, Y. Lokesh, Akshay Nagarajan, P. Abinesh Karthik, Aman Jha, Shovit Singh, Rohini Musa, Barun Kumar Sinha, Pratibha Sinha, Birendra Kumar Choudhary, Arun Kumar, Abhishek, Anil, Kumar, Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Anubha Bhardwaj, Dinesh Bhati, Yadvendra Dutt Dwivedi, Baby Devi Bonia, Avdhesh Kumar Singh, Himanshu Satija, G.S. Mani, Pabitra Kumar Biswal, Amit Kumar, Anil Hooda, Ajay Sharma, B.K. Satija, Ajay Bansal, Gaurav Yadava, Veena Bansal, Suvesh Kumar, R.R. Rajesh, Himanshu Satija, Shovit Singh, Aakash Kumar, Prerna Singh, Arun Singh, C. Rubavathi, Rakesh Mudgal, Syed Mehdi Imam, Ranjit Kumar, D. Bharat Kumar, Yash Mishra, Ankit Raj, Indira Bhakhar, Rajesh Singh, Vineet Pandey, Nidhi Jaiswal, Santosh Kumar, T. Bhaskar Gowtham, Ashwin Kumar, Kumar Mihir, Srishti Mishra, Ruchi Kohli, V. Shekhar, Lakshmi Raman Singh, Udita Singh, Chandra Prakash, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Vivek Singh, Shashank Shekhar, Satwik Mishra, Nanita Sharma, Yunus Malik, Sheetal Rajput, Anupam Mishra, V. Harikumar, Pankaj Sharma, Ritu Reniwal, Mahendra Kumawat, B.K. Jauhari, Purnima Jauhari, Harsh Mahan, Rachna Gandhi, Arun Adlakha, Raju Sonkar, Archana Sharma, N.M. Theerth, V. Senthil Kumar, Hari Shankar Singh, P.N. Mishra, Deepak Kumar, Prerit Shukla, Ankit Mishra, Kanupriya, Archit Mandhyan, Dhanjay Kumar, Prasant Sukla, Ravi Kumar Dwivedi, Ajay Amritraj, Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Mr Krishna Kant Sharma, Amit Kumar, Rakesh K. Mudgal, Mohd. Ainul Ansari, Sunil Khatwani, Pardeep Jatav, Garima Shukla, Manoj Kumar Goyal, R.N. Venjrani, Hitesh Kumar Sharma, S.K. Rajora, Anika Nissar Sayyed, Krishna Kant, Arpit Rai, Hari Shanbkar Singh, Rajeev Kr. Srivastava, Shraddha Saxena, Dv. Siddhartha Bansal, K.K. Khurana, M.K. Pandey, Sanjana Khurana, Amit Kumar Singh, Siba Nand Mishra, Raj Kumar Parasha, Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Advocates

To restore the status of the property as it existed on the date of the suit, it is essential to establish the factual and legal position prevailing at that time, considering the long-standing religious practices, historical records, and archaeological evidence.

Based on the available evidence and the historical context, it is clear that the property in question was recognized by the community and authorities as a site of religious significance for Hindus, specifically as the birthplace of Lord Ram. The continuous worship, the presence of sacred objects such as Ramchabutra, Sita Rasoi, Footprints, and other objects of religious importance, as well as the longstanding tradition of pilgrimage and offerings, affirm that the site was held in reverence and used for religious purposes by Hindus from ancient times (!) (!) (!) .

The archaeological findings, including the presence of structures dating back to the twelfth century and earlier, along with inscriptions and artifacts of Hindu religious origin, support the community’s claim that the site was a Hindu religious site before the construction of the mosque (!) (!) (!) . The evidence indicates that the mosque was constructed over a pre-existing Hindu religious site, which was used continuously for worship and pilgrimage prior to the Mughal period and the subsequent construction of the mosque in 1528 (!) (!) .

The long history of worship and the recognition of the site as sacred by the faith of the community, coupled with the archaeological evidence of a religious structure of Hindu origin, establish that the property’s religious character and use as a place of worship for Hindus remained intact and in effect as on the date of the suit. The property was not legally or practically alienated from its religious purpose, nor was its status as a sacred site legally altered or extinguished by subsequent acts, including the construction of the mosque, until the events of 1949 and 1992 (!) (!) (!) .

Therefore, the status of the property as a place of religious worship and the birthplace of Lord Ram, as understood and believed by the Hindu community, was to be preserved as on the date of the suit. It was a place of continuous worship, religious significance, and community belief, which had not been legally or effectively divested from its religious character or its status as Ram Janmabhumi prior to the suit. This status includes the community’s long-standing belief, the physical presence of objects of worship, and the recognition by authorities and historical records, all of which affirm its religious and cultural importance as on the date of filing the suit.