Important matters heard by Supreme Court on May 6

    Important matters heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, May 6:
    
    * SC directed Maharashtra state election commission to notify local body elections within four weeks
    
    * SC directed governments of Punjab and Haryana to cooperate with Centre for amicable solution to decades-old dispute over Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal
    
    * SC compared reservation in country with "a railway" or a train and said those who enter compartment "don't want others to come in"
    
    * Centre in SC opposed Kerala government's stand to withdraw its petition against governor over delay in approving bills passed by state assembly
    
    * SC rejected argument that a three-judge and not a two-judge bench should hear appeals of convicts in 2002 Godhra train burning case as issue was of capital punishment
    
    * SC slammed public official for disobeying order and forcibly removing hutments in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district in January 2014, saying his actions "can't go unpunished"
    
    * SC has sought response of National Medical Commission (NMC) on plea alleging non-payment of stipend to foreign medical graduates during their internship from a Bhopal medical college
    
    * SC set May 20 for holding top court bar association's elections on basis of voter list finalised in 2024
    
    * SC sought to know if FIRs were registered after suicides of an IIT Kharagpur student and a NEET aspirant in Kota, Rajasthan, came to light
    
    * SC directed governments of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Haryana to ensure "scrupulous" ban on firecrackers in areas falling under NCR and warned any failure would attract contempt
    
    * SC set aside judgment of Kerala High Court which cancelled election of CPI(M) leader A Raja from Devikulam Assembly seat in Idukki district.

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