Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, Sep 8 * SC directed that Aadhaar card “must” be included as an identity proof of voters in the special intensive revision exercise of electoral rolls in Bihar and asked the Election Commission to implement the direction by September 9.
* SC directed the Centre to file within three weeks its stand on a PIL alleging Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu awarded contracts to his family members.
* SC dismissed a plea filed by the BJP’s Telangana unit challenging a high court order which quashed a defamation case against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over his speech during the 2024 Lok Sabha poll campaign.
* SC ordered status quo in Goa’s Mhadei-Kotigaon area which was identified by National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) as a reserve for the big cats.
* The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar withdrew a plea from SC against an order refusing her to examine more witnesses in a 25-year old defamation case she filed against Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena.
* SC refused to extend the interim bail of convict Vikas Yadav, who is serving a 25-year jail term in the sensational 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, and asked him to move the Delhi High Court instead.
* SC questioned the Tamil Nadu government over appointment of an acting DGP and directed the UPSC to expeditiously recommend names for making a regular appointment.
* SC decided to hear on September 15 the bail plea of Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon case accused Mahesh Raut on medical grounds.
* SC refused to interfere with the appointment of Professor Naima Khatoon as the Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).
* SC sought response of the Gujarat government and the Enforcement Directorate on a bail plea of journalist Mahesh Langa seeking bail in a money laundering case linked to an alleged financial fraud.
* You are destroying the entire system of public examinations, SC told an accused, who allegedly used a proxy person to appear for him in the CTET examination in Uttar Pradesh in December 2024.
* SC reserved its verdict on pleas including the one filed by the West Bengal government against the Calcutta High Court 2022 order asking the state to release dearness allowance (DA) arrears since July 2009.
* Supreme Court judge Justice K Vinod Chandran recused from hearing a plea seeking directions to authorities to investigate allegations made by US short seller Viceroy Research that billionaire Anil Agarwal’s mining conglomerate was “financially unsustainable” and posing severe risk to creditors.
* SC said it would examine if the option to move high courts for anticipatory bail would be the “choice of the party” or it was mandatory for litigants to first approach a sessions court.
* SC restored the rights of property of a widow ousted from the matrimonial home after her in-laws took their son’s money from his life insurance policy. PTI PKS HIG HIG
