Who are the mediators in Ayodhya dispute case?
New Delhi, Mar 8: The Supreme Court on Friday appointed a mediation panel in the Ayodhya case. The bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, appointed a three-member panel to act as mediators. The panel will be headed by former Supreme Court judge FM Kalifullah with spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and mediation expert Sriram Panchu as other members.
[SC orders mediation in Ayodhya Case, appoints 3 mediators to report in 8 weeks]
Fakkir
Mohamed
Ibrahim
Kalifulla:
Born
onn
23
July
1951,
Kalifulla
is
a
former
judge
of
the
Supreme
Court
of
India.
Kalifulla
enrolled
as
an
advocate
on
20
August
1975,
after
which
he
began
practicing
labour
law
in
the
law
firm
of
T.S.
Gopalan
&
Co.
On 2 March 2000, he was appointed as a judge of the Madras High Court. In February 2011, he became a member of the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and was appointed to serve as the acting Chief Justice two months later.
In September 2011, he was named as the Chief Justice of High Court of Jammu and Kashmir. On 2 April 2012, he was named to the Supreme Court of India, sworn in by Chief Justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia. Justice Kalifulla retired from the Supreme Court of India on 22 July 2016.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar:
Born on 13 May 1956, Ravi Shankar is an Indian spiritual leader. He is frequently referred to as "Sri Sri" or as Guruji or Gurudev. He founded the Art of Living Foundation in 1981, a volunteer-based NGO providing social support to the people. In 1997, he established a Geneva-based charity, the International Association for Human Values, an NGO that engages in relief work and rural development and aims to foster shared global values.
[Ayodhya case: Mediation to be held in Faizabad]
Ravi Shankar's efforts at mediation in the Ayodhya dispute in 2017 received a mixed response from both Hindu and Muslim leaders. Based on Supreme Court of India's suggestion for an out-of-court settlement, he proposed a mutual compromise where both communities "gift" neighbouring pieces of land to each other. This proposal was met with a lot of skepticism and resistance.
Sriram
Panchu:
Sriram
Panchu
is
a
senior
advocate
and
mediator.
He
is
a
founder
of
The
Mediation
Chambers,
which
offers
services
in
mediation
and
med-arb.
He
is
the
president
of
the
Association
of
Indian
Mediators
and
a
director
on
the
board
of
the
International
Mediation
Institute
(IMI).
He
set
up
India's
first
court-annexed
mediation
centre
in
2005,
and
has
been
instrumental
in
making
mediation
a
part
of
India's
legal
system.
Panchu has mediated a large number of complex and high-value disputes across the range of commercial, corporate and contractual disputes in different parts of India. He is a certified mediator on the panel of the Singapore International Mediation Centre. He was appointed by Supreme Court to mediate a 500 square kilometre dispute between the states of Assam and Nagaland, and another public dispute involving the Parsi community in Bombay.