Important cases heard by the Supreme Court on Friday, April 25: * Centre defended the amended Waqf Act in SC and opposed any “blanket stay” by the court on a “law having presumption of constitutionality passed by Parliament”.

* SC censured Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for “irresponsible” remarks on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar at a rally in Maharashtra but stayed the criminal proceedings against him.

* SC pulled up Tamil actor-turned-politician S V Shekher over his reported derogatory posts on social media against a journalist and said he “carried out a nasty campaign against a woman”.

* In a setback to the Punjab government, the SC dismissed its appeal challenging the bail granted to Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a drugs case by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

* SC has said it will examine whether a stepmother can be considered for family pension under the Indian Air Force rules, saying mother is a very wide term . PTI PKS HIG HIG