Important cases heard by Supreme Court on Thursday

    Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday, May 29:

    * SC granted interim protection from coercive action to former Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) chief in Telangana T Prabhakar Rao, an accused in the phone-tapping case.

    * SC dismissed a plea filed by British national Christian Michel James, who had challenged the Delhi High Court's order directing him to furnish details of the address where he intended to reside post-release on bail in the Rs 3,600-crore AgustaWestland money laundering case.

    * SC cancelled the bail granted to some persons who were accused of molesting a woman after the Assembly election results in West Bengal in May 2021, saying the dastardly offence was nothing short of a "grave attack" on the roots of democracy.

    * SC clarified that it had made no observations on the merits of the case while rejecting a plea challenging the Maharashtra government's proposed construction of a passenger jetty and terminal near the historic Gateway of India in Mumbai.

    * SC refused to entertain a plea seeking to restrain tourists from their overnight stay in core tiger reserve areas in the country.

    * Man becomes a beast after drinking, SC observed while refusing to entertain the plea of a cardiologist seeking suspension of sentence for sexually assaulting his seven-year-old daughter.

    * SC sought responses from the Jharkhand government and the high court registry on a plea of a single parent woman judicial officer challenging the denial of her childcare leave request.

    * SC agreed to hear next week a plea against proposed demolitions of certain alleged illegal properties at Jamia Nagar in the national capital.

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