Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, October 21: * Former Delhi chief minister and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal is set to face trial in a defamation case over his alleged remarks over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification after SC dismissed his plea to quash summons.
* SC pulled up the Karnataka government for “harassing” students by conducting board exams for different classes, and restrained it from declaring results of board examinations of classes 8, 9 and 10 till further orders.
* SC stayed the operation of the communications issued by child rights body NCPCR urging states to shift students of unrecognised madrassas to government schools.
* SC refused to stay the ongoing examination conducted by the Telangana Public Service Commission (TGPSC) to fill up 563 Grade-I posts in various government departments, saying such an order will lead to “chaos”.
* SC refused to entertain a PIL seeking to replace the term ‘Hindutva’ with ‘Bharatiya Samidhaanitva’ (Indian constitutionalism).
* SC extended by two weeks the time granted to the Centre-appointed seven-member expert panel to file its report on exam reforms after reviewing the National Testing Agency’s functioning in holding the NEET-UG.
* SC said secularism had always been held to be part and parcel of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution.
* SC stressed on having “uniform standards” to the extent possible to ensure safety and security of students studying at coaching centres.
* SC asked the Centre to produce within three weeks the original records relating to its decision to block a 2023 two-part BBC documentary series on the 2002 Gujarat riots.
* SC sought responses from the Centre and Election Commission of India on a plea challenging a provision of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, claiming it prevents voters from choosing the “none of the above” (NOTA) option if there was only one candidate.
* SC pulled up the Union Finance Ministry for seeking data from the Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRT) over the amount recovered on the basis of the tribunals’ orders and sought an explanation.
* SC extended the tenure of former Delhi High Court judge Justice Jayant Nath as the interim chairperson of the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) even after he attains the superannuation age of 65 years. PTI PKS HIG
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