Ram Mandir Case: The hearing on Ayodhya case in Supreme Court that was scheduled for Tuesday, January 29, has been adjourned. The case won't be taken up for hearing by the 5-judge constitution bench of the apex court due to the non-availability of Justice SA Bobde, following which sitting of the Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi stands cancelled, as per a notice issued by the Supreme Court registry. Now the case will be taken on another day.

The Supreme Court had recently constituted a new 5-judge bench to hear the politically sensitive Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid land title dispute in Ayodhya on January 29. The five-judge bench was re-constituted on January 25, as Justice U U Lalit, who was a member of the original bench, had recused himself from hearing the matter.

The bench was re-constituted as Justice U U Lalit, who was a member of the original bench, recused himself on January 10 after expressing disinclination to participate in the hearing any further as he had appeared as a lawyer for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh in a connected matter "sometime in the year 1997".

The new bench comprises of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S A Nazeer. Justice N V Ramana, who was in the bench which last heard the matter on January 10, is also not a member in the new bench.

Fourteen appeals have been filed in the apex court against the 2010 Allahabad High Court judgement, delivered in four civil suits, that the 2.77-acre land be partitioned equally among three parties -- the Sunni Waqf Board, the Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.