Important cases heard by Supreme Court on May 21

Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, May 21:
    
     * The Centre defended the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in SC and said though waqf was an Islamic concept, it was not an essential part of Islam.

     * SC granted interim bail to Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, arrested for his contentious social media posts on Operation Sindoor, but refused to stay the investigation against him.
    
     * SC refused to hear a plea seeking an FIR against high court judge Yashwant Varma in connection with the discovery of cash from this official residence in the capital.
    
     * Is she a drug lord or a terrorist ? SC asked Delhi Police as it granted anticipatory bail to former IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, accused of cheating, and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits in the civil services examination.

     * SC called it "contemptuous" and quashed a Madhya Pradesh government order stipulating Indian Administrative Service officers to review performance appraisal reports of Indian Forest Service officers in the state.
    
     * Observing that there was need to establish a permanent consumer fora, SC directed the Centre to apprise it within three months on the feasibility of a permanent adjudicatory forum for consumer disputes.

     * The Tamil Nadu government has moved SC against the Centre for allegedly withholding over Rs 2,151 crore in central education funds under the Samagra Shiksha Scheme for 2024-2025.
    
    * SC, by a majority of 2:1, on Wednesday held the Air Force School at Bamrauli in Allahabad does qualifies as a "State" or its instrumentalities under the Constitution and no writ can be issued against it for regularisation of services of contractual employees.
    
     * SC dismissed a plea filed by former Telangana minister Nagam Janardhan Reddy seeking CBI probe into alleged fraud in manipulating the estimates of electromechanical equipment meant for Palamuru Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Project.

     * Chief Justice of India B R Gavai said lawyers don't want to work during vacation but the judiciary is blamed for the backlog of cases.

(This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)