Important matters heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, August 4:
* SC rejected a plea against the transfer of probe to the CBI over the alleged assault of a colonel by Punjab Police personnel over a parking dispute in March and said, "You are sleeping peacefully in your house because Army is serving at the border".
* SC has ordered not to use the park inside the premises of the Lodhi-era monument "Gumti of Shaikh Ali" in Defence Colony area in the capital for the construction of badminton or basketball courts.
* In a setback to the Uttar Pradesh government, the SC said it would keep in abeyance its May 15 nod to the ambitious scheme to develop the Shri Banke Bihari Temple Corridor at Vrindavan in Mathura for the benefit of devotees as main stakeholders were not heard.
* SC reserved its verdict on a plea against an order quashing the FIR against nine persons, including Praful Khoda Patel, Administrator of the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, for allegedly abetting suicide of former Lok Sabha MP Mohan Delkar in 2021.
* SC agreed to examine a plea for repealing the Bodh Gaya Temple Act, 1949 and replacing it with a central law for the proper control, management and administration of Mahabodhi temple in Bihar.
* SC said the challenge to the communications issued by child rights body NCPCR urging states to shift students in unrecognised madrasas to government schools could be raised before the high court concerned.
* SC refused to stay an interim injunction by the Madras High Court against the use of OTP verification messages for the DMK's enrolment drive 'Oraniyil Tamil Nadu'.
* SC asked a petitioner to move the Bombay High Court with his plea accusing Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray of hate speech and inciting violence against the north Indian community.
* If you are a true Indian, you wouldn't say such a thing, the SC said as it censured Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his alleged derogatory remarks about the Indian Army during his Bharat Jodo Yatra.
* SC dismissed an appeal of Karnataka Minister Shivananda S Patil challenging a Karnataka High Court order that had quashed a defamation case against BJP MLA Basanagouda R Patil Yatnal.
* SC agreed to hear on August 6 the appeal of the DMK government against the Madras High Court order asking it not to use names and photographs of present and former chief ministers in welfare schemes.