New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday postponed hearing a bunch on petitions in the Ayodhya title dispute case till January 10.“Further orders will be passed by an appropriate bench on January 10 for fixing the date of hearing the matter,” a bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice S.K. Kaul said. The bench is likely to constitute a separate three-judge bench to hear the appeals in the Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi case.No arguments were heard on Friday.The bench to be set up will hear as many as 14 appeals filed 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.The apex court on October 29 had fixed the matter in the first week of January before an “appropriate bench”, which will decide the schedule of hearing.Later, an application was moved for according an urgent hearing by advancing the date, but the top court had refused the plea, saying it had already passed an order on October 29 relating to the hearing on the matter.Also read: How Modi and Shah Have Harnessed the VHP and its Ayodhya BlusterThe plea for early hearing was moved by the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) which is one of the respondents in the appeal filed by legal heirs of M. Siddiq, one of the original litigants in the case.A three-judge bench of the top court had on September 27, by 2:1 majority, refused to refer to a five-judge constitution bench the issue of reconsideration of the observations in its 1994 judgement that a mosque was not integral to Islam. The matter had arisen during the hearing of the Ayodhya land dispute.Various Hindutva organisations have been demanding an ordinance on early construction of Ram temple at the disputed site.The hearing on Friday assumes importance as Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday suggested any decision on an ordinance on Ram temple in Ayodhya can happen only after the completion of the judicial process. Modi’s comments came amidst heightened demands by Hindutva organisations, including the RSS, for an ordinance for an early construction of the temple.“Let the judicial process take its own course. Don’t weigh it in political terms. Let the judicial process be over. After the judicial process is over, whatever be our responsibility as government, we are ready to make all efforts,” the prime minister said during an interview, broadcast by several TV channels.(With PTI inputs)