Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Thursday, September 26: * HC extended till October 4 the interim protection from arrest granted to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar in the criminal case lodged against her for alleged cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits in civil services examination.
* HC asked the Centre to obtain a copy of a petition pending before the Allahabad High Court on the issue of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s citizenship.
* HC said it neither has the wherewithal nor the expertise to prepare a uniform banking code for foreign exchange transactions to check black money generation and benami transactions.
* A member of a force does not cease to be on “active duty” if he is not effectively on field, and therefore a mishap suffered by him during assigned duties in a “peace station” will qualify as an injury on “active duty”, the HC has held.
* HC halted the counting of votes of DUSU elections, which are scheduled on Friday, till all the defacement material, including posters, hoarding and graffiti, is removed and public property is restored.
* HC asked the Centre to expeditiously decide a representation seeking to use the “proper meaning” of the term “religion” and not use it as a synonym of “dharma” in official documents.
* HC sought the city police’s response to a petition by former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Singh, seeking quashing of the FIR and charges framed against him in a sexual harassment case lodged by several women wrestlers. PTI SKV ADS RHL
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