No out of court settlement, Wakf Board to move SC

LUCKNOW: The Sunni Central Wakf Board today decided to challenge the Allahabad High Court verdict on the Ayodhya title suit in the Supreme Court and asserted no person had been authorised to explore possibilities of an out-of-court settlement.

The Wakf Board, a litigant in the Ayodhya title suit, held an emergency meeting here and decided to challenge the High Court's verdict in the Supreme Court, Wakf Board Chairman Zafar Ahmad Farooqui said.

"On the basis of the legal advise from experts, it was decided to challenge the verdict in the apex court," he said.

No date had yet been fixed on moving the Supreme Court, Farooqui said.

He said the Board had clarified that no person had been authorised by it to explore possibilities of an out-of-court settlement.