Important cases listed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Feb 28:
* A nine-judge Constitution bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud to hear pleas to decide a vexed legal question whether royalty paid by mine operators to the Centre is a form of tax or not.
* SC to hear a plea of independent MP Navneet Kaur Rana against cancellation of her caste certificate by Bombay HC.
* SC to hear a bail plea of TMC leader Anubrata Mondal in the cattle smuggling case.
* SC to hear pleas of TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, Nalini Chidambaram and BRS leader K Kavitha challenging proceedings under PMLA.
* SC to hear pleas of journalist B G Verghese and lyricist Javed Akhtar seeking direction for a probe by an independent agency into alleged fake encounter cases.
