Important cases heard in the Supreme Court on Monday, January 9: * Observing that religious conversion is a serious issue which should not be given political colour, SC sought the assistance of Attorney General R Venkataramani on a plea seeking direction to the Centre and states to take stringent steps to control fraudulent religious conversions.
* SC refused to entertain a PIL challenging the decisions of the Uttarakhand and Gujarat governments to constitute committees for implementing Uniform Civil Code (UCC), saying the petition was devoid of merit and the Constitution empowers the states to set up such panels.
* SC extended till February 17 its interim order placing social activist Gautam Navlakha, accused of having links to Maoists and Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, under house arrest.
* SC refused to entertain a plea by the West Bengal government challenging the Calcutta High Court order rejecting the state’s preliminary objection questioning the maintainability of a petition alleging irregularities in the recruitment of assistant teachers in primary schools on the basis of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), 2014.
* SC granted time till March 15 to the Centre for payment of arrears of One Rank-One Pension (OROP) to all eligible pensioners of the armed forces.
* SC sought response from the Centre and the Telangana government on a plea filed by the Andhra Pradesh government seeking an equitable and expeditious division of assets and liabilities between itself and Telangana.
* SC asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to clarify whether the concurrence of an IPS officer on central deputation is necessary before he is appointed as the DGP of a state.
* SC asked a petitioner, who has sought the court’s intervention to declare the crisis in Uttarakhand’s Joshimath as a national disaster, to mention his plea on Tuesday for urgent listing.
* SC referred to another bench a plea filed by CPI(M) leaders Brinda Karat and KM Tiwari challenging the trial court’s refusal to direct registration of an FIR against Union Minister Anurag Thakur and his BJP colleague Pravesh Verma for their alleged hate speeches on anti-CAA protest at Shaheen Bagh here.
* SC reserved its order on a PIL seeking free access to charge sheets filed by police by posting them on a website.
* SC asked an NGO, which has sought an independent probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into the last month’s hooch tragedy in Bihar, to approach the high court on the matter. PTI ABA RHL
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