Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, Jul 14: * Centre informed SC that it was doing whatever was “utmost possible” to save an Indian nurse facing execution on July 16 for murder in Yemen, but “nothing much” could be done keeping in view the status of Yemen.
* SC dismissed a plea challenging an order confirming the five-year extension of the ban imposed on the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).
* SC said the right of freedom of speech and expression was being “abused” while hearing the plea of a cartoonist accused of sharing alleged objectionable cartoons of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS workers on social media.
* SC held that secretly recorded conversations of spouses are admissible as evidence in matrimonial cases, saying the fact that spouses are snooping on each other is proof the marriage is not going strong and hence can be used in judicial proceedings.
* SC set August to hear a plea of Uddhav Thackeray-led faction against the Maharashtra assembly speaker’s decision to give the “bow and arrow” party symbol to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction.
* SC agreed to hear a plea challenging the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision to merge over 100 primary schools with low student enrolment.
* SC said citizens must know the value of the right of freedom of speech and expression, and exercise self restraint as it mulled guidelines to regulate offensive social media posts.
* SC adjourned to July 25 the pleas of the Kerala government against the Governor over the delay in approving bills passed by the state assembly.
* SC agreed to hear a plea challenging the Delhi High Court’s decision to stay the release of the film ‘Udaipur Files: Kanhaiya Lal tailor murder’, which was scheduled to hit the screens on July 11.
* SC asked for a status report from the police in three states on the investigation over the suicides by students of IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kharagpur and a NEET aspirant in Kota, Rajasthan. PTI PKS HIG
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