Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Thursday

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    Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Thursday, May 1:
    
    * HC ordered Yoga guru Ramdev to remove within 24 hours an offensive video targeting Hamdard, manufacturers of Rooh Afza, from social media platforms after he was accused of contempt in a row over his controversial "sharbat jihad" remarks against the drink.
    
    * Comptroller and Auditor General of India opposed HC a plea challenging its process of auditing the accounts of Ajmer Sharif Dargah and claimed adherence to the legal procedure.
    
     * Enforcement Directorate opposed in HC a plea of alleged middleman Christian Michel James seeking modification of his bail conditions in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland money laundering case.
    
    * HC asked DDA not to take action against Shahi Idgah in the capital's Sadar Bazar area for using a park allegedly owned by the authority for a religious event last year.
    
    * HC issued notices to government's chief secretary and police in the capital after a plea alleged failure on their part in formulating a comprehensive mechanism to combat emergent situations such as bomb threats in schools.
    
    * HC said the "trend" of filing and retracting false complaints with impunity needed to be checked as false complaints cause grave injustice to actual victims and overload the docket.

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