The All India Muslim Personal Status Council, which includes intellectuals and Islamic organizations, said on Sunday it would petition the Supreme Court to reconsider a court ruling granting Hindus the right to build a temple for the Babri mosque in the city of Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
"There are obvious mistakes in the Supreme Court ruling and we felt it wise to file a petition for review," Council member Syed Qasim Ilyas said in a press briefing, adding that he would seek to review the ruling, which rejected Muslim claims to the site.
The ruling of the Supreme Court of India on the ninth of this month to hand over the historical land of the Babri Mosque to Hindus to build a temple on it, in exchange for granting Muslims alternative land area of two hectares to build a mosque on it.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court ordered that the site be entrusted to a body that would build a Hindu temple on certain conditions, while another separate land in Ayodhya would be handed over to Muslim groups for a new mosque.
A Muslim group that was involved in the dispute, the Sunni Waqf Council, had previously refused to appeal the ruling, saying it respected the court's decision.