Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, July 12:
* SC refused to hear the urgent mentioning of a plea against an order of the Allahabad High Court, which had directed the makers of the controversial movie “Adipurush” to appear before it on July 27.
* SC said it would hear on July 24 a plea by former JNU student Umar Khalid seeking bail in a UAPA case related to the alleged conspiracy behind the riots here in February 2020.
* SC adjourned till September 13 the hearing on the legal question whether a person who is ineligible to be an arbitrator can nominate another person as arbitrator.
* BJP MLA Purnesh Modi, the complainant in the defamation case against Rahul Gandhi, has filed a caveat in the SC seeking that he be heard if the Congress leader moves a plea challenging the Gujarat High Court verdict refusing to stay his conviction in the “Modi surname” remark case.
