Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 16: * The Supreme Court on Wednesday proposed to order that the properties declared as Waqf including “waqf by user” won’t be de-notified but the Centre opposed the suggestion and sought a hearing before such a directive.

* The SC questioned the Telangana government over its “tearing urgency” to fell trees on a land parcel next to the University of Hyderabad and said it would go “out of the way” for the protection of the environment.

* The SC directed Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his estranged wife Payal Abdullah to sit together and make an effort to resolve their matrimonial disputes.

* The SC said the violence occurring during protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 is “very disturbing”.

* Urdu is born in this land, the SC has said while describing it as the finest specimen of ‘Ganga Jamuni tahzeeb’ and stating that considering it a language of Muslims is a “pitiable digression” from reality and unity in diversity.

* The SC imposed a Rs 50,000 fine on two Uttar Pradesh Police officials for filing an FIR in a property dispute of civil nature.

* The SC refused to examine a plea seeking a regulatory framework on cryptocurrencies and said it couldn’t “lay down the law”.

* The SC refused to entertain petitions filed by the NIA against the bail granted to 17 Popular Front of India members in the 2022 murder case of RSS leader Srinivasan in Kerala’s Palakkad district.

* The SC fixed May 14 for hearing a batch of pleas challenging the appointment of the chief election commissioner (CEC) and election commissioners (EC) under the 2023 law. PTI SJK RHL