Important matters heard by the Supreme Court on Friday, August 8: * SC granted an interim stay on a Madhya Pradesh High Court order remanding a decades-old property dispute involving the royal estate of Bhopal’s last Nawab, Hamidullah Khan, to the trial court for fresh adjudication.
* The committee of creditors (CoC) of ailing Bhushan Power & Steel Limited (BPSL) opposed in the SC the plea by former promoters by questioning the maintainability.
* SC agreed to hear the Enforcement Directorate’s plea against an order deferring arguments on framing of money laundering charges against Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram in the Aircel-Maxis case.
* SC refused to gag the media from reporting on the Dharmasthala mass burial case in Karnataka.
* SC expressed displeasure over the orders passed by Allahabad High Court in a PIL over historic Banke Bihari Temple in Vrindavan and questioned the use of “intemperate language” against the Uttar Pradesh government.
* SC sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea alleging institutional apathy in maintaining welfare of persons with neurodivergent conditions such as autism.
* SC took note of repeated adjournments and assured early listing of the bail plea of advocate Surendra Gadling accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case.
* SC deleted its observations criticising Allahabad High Court judge Prashant Kumar for allowing criminal proceedings in a civil dispute case, making it clear that its intention was not to embarrass or cast aspersions on him.
* SC said the Uttar Pradesh government’s Bankey Bihari temple trust ordinance that rests administrative control of the iconic religious place with the state, would remain in abeyance till the high court decides the validity of statute.
* SC agreed to examine a challenge to the constitutional validity of sedition law, seen as the successor to the colonial-era law, under 2023 Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
* Outgoing Supreme Court Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia on Friday shared that he grew accustomed to hearing cases and lawyers from across the country and said, “I am going to miss my Hindustan.” * SC refused to hear a plea to appoint a retired top court judge for examining Air India’s safety practices among other aspects and asked the petitioner why target the airline that witnessed an “unfortunate tragedy”.
* SC stayed an order asking a rape accused’s wife, employed in the US, to remain in India as a “collateral” if he wished to travel abroad for a job.
* SC stayed an order of the NGT imposing a combined environmental compensation of Rs 50.44 crore on Delhi Jal Board and the MCD for failing to prevent sewage pollution in the capital’s drains and the Yamuna. PTI SJK SJK HIG HIG
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