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NEW DELHI: The push for converting the Babri Masjid to Ram Janambhoomi in Ayodhya would have been tough had it not been for the interim injunction by a British educated, civil judge on January 16, 1950.
The suit instituted on that day was given immediate interim injunction by the civil judge Faizabad, Thakur Bir Singh and amended by him on January 19 .The injunction withstood the trial court, High Court and was finally upheld by the Supreme Court in 2019. The injunction helped in warding off the immense pressure to remove the idol.
The ‘suit 1 of the 4 suites considered by the 5 judge SC Bench was instituted on 16 January 1950, by a Hindu devotee, Gopal Singh Visharad before the civil judge Thakur Bir Singh at Faizabad.
Visharad, according to the description in the Supreme Court judgement, had alleged that he was being prevented by officials of the government from entering the inner courtyard of the disputed site to offer worship.
Judge Bir Singh gave an ad-interim injunction on the same day. On January 19, 1950, the judge modified the injunction to prevent the idols from being removed from the disputed site and from causing interference in the performance of puja.
“The parties are hereby restrained by means of temporary injunction to refrain from removing the idols in question from the site in dispute and from interfering with Puja etc. as at present carried on,” the order had said.
Bir Singh son of a farmer who rose to become a deputy collector in the British time, Rai Bahadur Thakur Lekhraj Singh, studied in London and earned his Bar At Law.
After returning to India, Bir Singh joined the judicial service. His posting in Faizabad came at a particularly sombre moment in his life. His mentor and elder brother B B Singh an ICS officer, had committed suicide. This
transformed the club-going Bir Singh into a highly spiritual person. He devoted himself to Ramcharit Manas and law.
Many years later Bir Singh went on to become a famous judge in Uttar Pradesh known for his legal knowledge and fairness.
He continued his devotion to Ramcharit Manas till the end and wrote an authoritative commentary on Goswami Tulsidas’s immortal epic called ‘Sukh ka Strot -Ramcharit Manas’– a source of joy.
His grandsons were often regaled by the poetry of Milton, Keats and Byron by him and after reciting something from Paradise Lost, he would tell a chaupai from Ramcharit Manas and ask the young kids “can anything be more beautiful!”
The suit instituted on that day was given immediate interim injunction by the civil judge Faizabad, Thakur Bir Singh and amended by him on January 19 .The injunction withstood the trial court, High Court and was finally upheld by the Supreme Court in 2019. The injunction helped in warding off the immense pressure to remove the idol.
The ‘suit 1 of the 4 suites considered by the 5 judge SC Bench was instituted on 16 January 1950, by a Hindu devotee, Gopal Singh Visharad before the civil judge Thakur Bir Singh at Faizabad.
Visharad, according to the description in the Supreme Court judgement, had alleged that he was being prevented by officials of the government from entering the inner courtyard of the disputed site to offer worship.
Judge Bir Singh gave an ad-interim injunction on the same day. On January 19, 1950, the judge modified the injunction to prevent the idols from being removed from the disputed site and from causing interference in the performance of puja.
“The parties are hereby restrained by means of temporary injunction to refrain from removing the idols in question from the site in dispute and from interfering with Puja etc. as at present carried on,” the order had said.
Bir Singh son of a farmer who rose to become a deputy collector in the British time, Rai Bahadur Thakur Lekhraj Singh, studied in London and earned his Bar At Law.
After returning to India, Bir Singh joined the judicial service. His posting in Faizabad came at a particularly sombre moment in his life. His mentor and elder brother B B Singh an ICS officer, had committed suicide. This
transformed the club-going Bir Singh into a highly spiritual person. He devoted himself to Ramcharit Manas and law.
Many years later Bir Singh went on to become a famous judge in Uttar Pradesh known for his legal knowledge and fairness.
He continued his devotion to Ramcharit Manas till the end and wrote an authoritative commentary on Goswami Tulsidas’s immortal epic called ‘Sukh ka Strot -Ramcharit Manas’– a source of joy.
His grandsons were often regaled by the poetry of Milton, Keats and Byron by him and after reciting something from Paradise Lost, he would tell a chaupai from Ramcharit Manas and ask the young kids “can anything be more beautiful!”
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