Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Friday, Jul 25:
* Outlining the rise in suicides and mental health issues among students in educational institutions, SC issued pan-India guidelines to combat the problem.
* SC extended the stay on the criminal proceedings against senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a criminal case lodged in Uttar Pradesh for his comments against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in 2022.
* SC directed the Delhi HC to hear on July 28 the pleas challenging the Centre's nod to release "Udaipur Files - Kanhaiya Lal Tailor Murder".
* SC dismissed a plea for conducting delimitation exercise in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana for increasing the assembly seats in both the states.
* SC allowed the Kerala government to withdraw its pleas against Governor over the delay in approving bills passed by the state assembly.
* SC rapped a Kerala-based journalist for allegedly publishing a defamatory video against a prominent woman politician on his YouTube channel "Crime Online".
* SC said the rehabilitation of homeless persons suffering from psychosocial disabilities was a sensitive issue and directed the Centre to take it up "very seriously".
* SC sought responses from the Uttarakhand government and its public services commission on a plea challenging exclusion of persons with blindness and locomotor disability from taking up judicial services examination.
* SC said it was worried whether deer from Deer Park in Delhi's Hauz Khas were tranquillised before being transported to Rajasthan.