Important cases heard in Supreme Court on Friday, February 3
* SC directed the central government to produce original records relating to its decision to block a BBC documentary on the 2002 Gujarat riots.
* The Centre assured the SC that the Collegium’s recommendation of December last year for the appointment of five judges in the apex court will be cleared soon.
* SC asked the Maharashtra government to ensure that no hate speeches are delivered if authorities allow the Hindu Jan Akrosh Morcha to hold an event in Mumbai on February 5.
* SC allowed the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) mayoral candidate Shelly Oberoi to withdraw her plea, noting that mayoral election in the Delhi MCD is scheduled to be held on February 6.
* SC sought the responses of the Centre and six states on a plea moved by a Muslim body, seeking a transfer of 21 cases that have challenged state laws regulating religious conversions due to interfaith marriages to the apex court.
