Important cases heard by Supreme Court on July 24
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Important cases heard by Supreme Court on July 24
The Supreme Court has stayed the Bombay High Court’s decision to grant bail to Darshan Thoogudeepa. The high court has also agreed to hear a plea challenging the appointment of Jharkhand DGP Anant Agrawal. It has also dismissed a plea to set up an expert committee on the impact of direct cash benefit schemes on the economy. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the plea in the next few days.
* SC stayed the Bombay HC verdict acquitting all 12 accused in the 2006 Mumbai train bomb blasts case but said they need not return to jail.
* SC called the Karnataka HC’s decision to grant bail to Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa and six others in the Renukaswamy murder case a “perverse exercise” of discretionary power.
* SC expressed the possibility of remanding on July 25 the matter over the stay of movie “Udaipur Files – Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder” back to the high court.
* SC agreed to examine a plea seeking contempt action against Assam government authorities for allegedly violating the top court directives during its demolition exercise in Goalpara district.
* SC agreed to list a batch of pleas questioning the delay on the part of the central government in appointment of judges after the collegium reiterated their names.
* SC agreed to hear on July 28 a plea questioning whether BS VI-compliant vehicles should have an end-of-life period of 15 years for petrol variants and 10 years for diesel variants in the National Capital Region.
* SC agreed to hear on July 28 a plea of West Bengal government against the Calcutta HC decision staying the new list of other backward classes .
* SC agreed to hear next week a plea challenging the appointment of Jharkhand DGP Anurag Gupta claiming the due process was not followed.
* SC dismissed a plea alleging bogus voting registration, saying the court’s PIL jurisdiction was being “misused and abused”.
* SC dismissed a plea to appoint an expert committee to conduct a comprehensive study on the adverse impact of direct cash benefit, freebies and other state-sponsored schemes
* SC dismissed a plea to ensure installation of six airbags in passenger vehicles and said the matter was exclusively within the policy domain.
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