Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday, October 3: * In a landmark verdict, SC banned caste-based discrimination like division of manual labour, segregation of barracks and bias against prisoners of de-notified tribes and habitual offenders by holding as “unconstitutional” the jail manual rules of 10 states for fostering such biases.
* SC said the fight against caste-based discrimination is not a battle that can be won overnight and it requires sustained effort, dedication and the willingness to confront and challenge societal norms that perpetuate inequality.
* SC effectively halted the police probe into the alleged illegal confinement of two women at spiritual leader Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation ashram at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.
* SC slammed the Commission for Air Quality Management for failing to control incidents of stubble burning in NCR and adjoining areas, and said it has made no effort to implement its direction to prevent such incidents.
* SC will hear on Friday a batch of pleas, including those seeking a court-monitored probe into the alleged use of animal fat in making Tirupati laddus.
* The Delhi Police informed SC that an order prohibiting the assembly of five or more persons in the national capital from September 30 to October 5 has been “withdrawn”.
* SC gave bail to Chhattisgarh-based businessman Sunil Dammani, arrested by the ED in August last year in a money laundering case linked to the Mahadev illegal gambling app, and said it was doing so without getting into the merit of the allegations * SC sentenced two persons, including ex-MLA Munna Shukla, to life imprisonment in the 1998 murder case of former Bihar minister Brij Bihari Prasad.
* SC struck down the Khalsa University (Repeal) Act, 2017 as being “unconstitutional”, saying the law singled out the Khalsa University amongst 16 private varsities in Punjab. PTI ABA AS AS
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