New Delhi
The UP Government on Friday accused the Muslim parties to the Ayodhya dispute of trying to avoid adjudication of the long-pending issue by raking up issues already settled by the Supreme Court.

“When all translations are made and evidence is compiled in several volumes and all appeals become ripe for hearing… suddenly belated efforts started being made visibly and demonstratively to delay the judicial adjudication,” Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta told a three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on behalf of the UP Government. “After several such similar attempts, the present attempt is a belated attempt to avoid judicial adjudication of a long-pending dispute…,” Mehta told the Bench, which also included Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S Abdul Nazeer.

Mehta said the M Ismail Fauruqui case now being sought to be referred to a larger Bench was decided in 1994 and none had disputed its correctness. The court will further hear it on July 13.