AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has landed in a soup for his comments on Supreme Court’s verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit. A police complaint was lodged in Bhopal’s Jahangirabad police station alleging he gave an inciting speech and spoke out against the apex court's decision.
Owaisi has been charged with sedition and inciting communal sentiments in the FIR. The plaintiff in the letter of the complaint quoted parts of Owaisi’s speech claiming it was aimed at inflaming religious sentiments of a particular community.
On November 9, when the five-judge Constitutional bench ruled in favour of deity Ram Lalla directing the Centre to form a trust within three months which will oversee the construction of Ram Temple.
Rejecting the verdict, Owaisi said the apex court is “not infallible” and endorses the view of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board’s (AIMPLB’s) which said it is “not satisfied” with the ruling.
“Those who demolished the Babri Masjid in December 1992... the Supreme Court today is telling the same people to form a trust and start temple construction,” the AIMIM chief said.
He also said Muslims were fighting for legal right and not “begging for 5-acre of land”.
We have full faith in the Constitution. We were fighting for our legal right; we don't need five-acre land as donation. We should reject this five-acre land offer, don't patronise us,” the Lok Sabha MP said. “If I beg on the roads of Hyderabad, I will collect enough money to build a mosque in UP,” he added.
“The Supreme Court is supreme but not infallible. Do I not have the right to express dissatisfaction with a judgement? Just as AIMPLB said it is not happy. We cannot do a trade-in with a mosque site; it’s not personal property,” he further added.
The AIMIM chief had criticised on the contentious title dispute case and said that the 5-acre land allotted to Muslim away from the disputed site was nothing but an insult to the Muslim faith.