* SC sought response from the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea challenging the state’s directive mandating the display of QR codes on all eateries along the ‘kanwar’ yatra route, which reveal the names and identities of the owners.
* SC granted protection from coercive action to a cartoonist accused of sharing alleged objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS workers on social media.
* Political parties relying on caste considerations are equally dangerous for the country, SC observed as it refused to entertain a plea seeking cancellation of registration of All India Majlis-E-lttehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) as a political party.
* SC asked the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to release stipends within two weeks to 11 foreign medical graduates for their internship at JN Medical College, a constituent unit of the university.
* SC said prisoners, including disabled ones, not being provided “preferred or costly food items” in jails was not a violation of fundamental rights.
* SC directed Tamil Nadu jail authorities to identify prisoners with disabilities at the time of admission and said all prisons must be equipped with disabled-friendly infrastructure.
* SC will on Wednesday hear the plea of the Kanhaiya Lal tailor murder case accused opposing the release of the film based on the matter.
* SC fixed July 31 for hearing a batch of pleas seeking review of the 2022 verdict that upheld the Enforcement Directorate (ED) powers of arrest and attachment of property involved in money laundering, search and seizure under PMLA.
* SC declined to order the premature release of Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, a convict in a triple murder case allegedly linked to a terrorist act.
* SC acquitted a man, who was facing death penalty for allegedly murdering two persons in Tamil Nadu in 2011, and issued directions to be followed in all cases where DNA evidence is involved.
* SC while hearing a plea alleging harassment over feeding of community dogs in Noida asked the petitioner, “Why don’t you feed them in your own house?” PTI PKS HIG
