CJI Gogoi Meets UP Chief Secy, Takes Stock of Security

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Friday held a meeting with Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and director general of police and took stock of security arrangements ahead of the verdict to be pronounced next week in the politically-sensitive Ayodhya land dispute case, sources said.

Sources saidthat the meeting was held in the chamber of CJI for around one hour duringwhich UP Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari and DGP Om Prakash Singhapprised him about the security arrangements made to maintain law and order inthe state.

However, no further detail about the deliberations was madeavailable.

The judgment on the Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid titledispute was reserved on October 16 after a marathon hearing of 40 days. The judgmentis likely to be pronounced before November 17 as Justice Gogoi's tenure as theCJI comes to end on that day.