* SC agreed to hear a plea of Ashoka University’s political science department head Ali Khan Mahmudabad challenging his arrest for social media posts related to Operation Sindoor.
* SC dismissed the pleas of telecom majors Vodafone, Airtel and Tata Teleservices seeking the waiver of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues.
* SC slammed Delhi government over vacancies in the Delhi Pollution Control Committee and directed it to fill all the posts by September this year.
* SC observed the country was not a “dharamshala” or a public shelter to accommodate foreign nationals from across the globe.
* SC agreed to list for urgent hearing a plea seeking registration of an FIR against Allahabad High Court’s Justice Yashwant Varma in connection with the cash discovery row.
* SC extended by four weeks the interim bail of convict Vikas Yadav, serving a 25-year jail term in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case, to attend to his ailing mother.
* SC sought the response of the Bar Council of India on a plea against fee charged for the All India Bar Examination (AIBE). PTI PKS NB NB