Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Friday, September 27: * SC rapped the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) over its failure to curb air pollution in Delhi due to crop residue burning in the neighbouring states and said it needs to be more active in its approach.
* SC cleared decks for private firm GMR Airports to upgrade and operate Nagpur’s Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport (AAI) by closing the proceedings on a curative plea of the Centre and the Airport Authority of India.
* SC directed the Rajasthan government to release within a week pending salaries of retired government AYUSH doctors who were reinstated following a high court verdict, and asked why they were given a “step-motherly” treatment.
* SC sought responses from the Centre and others on a petition by Babbar Khalsa terrorist Jagtar Singh Hawara, who is serving life term in the killing of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995, seeking his transfer from Delhi’s Tihar jail to any prison in Punjab.
* SC would hear on Monday a plea of Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal challenging a high court order that refused to quash a defamation case against them over remarks on the alleged deletion of the names of 30 lakh voters belonging to some communities from the electoral rolls.
* SC termed as “unwarranted and extraneous” the Madras High Court directive to YouTuber Felix Jerald to close down his channel as one of the bail conditions.
* SC said the appellate court cannot re-appreciate the evidence of dispute to ascertain the correctness of the award of arbitral tribunal. PTI PKS RPA
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