Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday, Jul 6:
*SC agreed to hear on July 10 a plea filed by the Delhi government challenging the constitutionality of the ordinance on control of services.
*SC awarded life sentence to four convicts of the 1996 Lajpat Nagar bomb blast case for the remainder of their lives without remission, citing the severity of the offence.
*Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia moved SC seeking bail in the CBI and ED cases arising out of the alleged Delhi excise policy scam.
*SC refused to entertain a plea by two Manipur residents against repeated internet shutdowns in the state rocked by ethnic violence and gave them the liberty to approach the high court on the matter.
*SC refused to entertain a plea, which raised the issue of reservation of seats for women in panchayats claiming a proxy process was being followed where men were operating behind women in these elections, and permitted the petitioner to make a representation to the Ministry of Panchayati Raj.
*SC sought responses from all states on a plea seeking directions to authorities for effective implementation of the provisions of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act and the related rules.
*SC directed a sessions court in West Bengal to decide within a month the domestic violence case filed against cricketer Mohammed Shami by his estranged wife Hasin Jahan.
*SC dismissed the West Bengal government’s plea challenging an order of the Delhi High Court which had refused to interfere with the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) verdict asking the state to grant a no objection certificate (NOC) in a matter related to cadre transfer of an IPS officer from there to Rajasthan.
*SC asked the University Grants Commission (UGC) to specify steps it has taken and proposed to take, to provide non-discriminatory, enabling environment for the students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in institutions of higher learning, terming it a “very serious issue”.
*SC deferred hearing on a plea seeking directions to the Election Commission and the government for holding early assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir.
*SC refused to entertain a plea seeking a detailed report on the health and movement of rice-eating tusker Arikkomban.
