Important matters heard by Supreme Court on Monday

Important matters heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, August 11:

     * Noting an "extremely grim" situation due to stray dog bites resulting in rabies, particularly among children, SC directed Delhi-NCR authorities to permanently relocate all strays from streets to shelters "at the earliest".

     * SC refused to expunge its remarks against former Tamil Nadu minister Senthil Balaji in its September 2022 order restoring criminal complaints and other verdicts against him in the cash-for-job case.

     * SC confirmed the conviction of activist Medha Patkar in a 25-year-old defamation case filed by Delhi LG V K Saxena.

     * SC dismissed a plea against a Bombay High Court order directing the BMC to file FIR against persons feeding pigeons in "kabutarkhanas" (pigeon feeding spots) in the city.

     * SC agreed to examine a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to frame policies for a more equitable system of reservation in government employment.

     * SC said the "devil is not in the law" but "in the abuse" of the provisions of PMLA as it refused to examine former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel's plea challenging the PMLA provision empowering the ED to file supplementary chargesheets in money laundering cases.

     * SC fixed November 19-20 for the final hearing of pleas seeking declaration of "Talaq-e-Hasan" and all other forms of "unilateral extrajudicial divorce" as unconstitutional.

     * SC agreed to hear on Thursday a plea challenging the transfer of Mahadevi, a temple elephant from Kolhapur, to the Radhe Krishna Temple Elephant Welfare Trust in Jamnagar's Vantara sanctuary.

     * SC directed a litigant and his lawyers to tender an unconditional apology to a Telangana High Court judge against whom they levelled scurrilous allegations .

     * SC refused to hear a PIL for directions to state election commissions (SEC) to take steps to curb alleged illegal activities of political parties that could undermine "sovereignty, integrity, and unity of the country".

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