Deoband seminary to study Ayodhya ruling

Indo-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

NEW DELHI - Darool Uloom Deoband, a leading Muslim seminary based in Uttar Pradesh, Thursday said its top clerics would study the Allahabad High Court judgment on the disputed Ayodhya site in detail before it expressed its views.

We will sit, may be tomorrow, to study the court ruling before commenting on it. It is a sensitive issue and any comment in haste would be improper, Maulana Abdul Khaliq Sambali of the seminary told IANS.

Sambali said the Darul Uloom office has closed for the day and clerics, teachers and officer bearers of the seminary would be meeting most probably Friday before we react to the judgment.

However, the teacher of the seminary said the Darul Uloom requested Muslims to maintain peace and order and not react hastily and