Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Tuesday

Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday, August 20: * HC said BJP leader Subramanian Swamy's plea, seeking directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide his representation seeking cancellation of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Indian citizenship, be treated a public interest litigation.

* HC asked the Centre on Tuesday to treat as representation and pass appropriate orders in three months on a petition against the alleged illegal sale of hookahs and its variants, without any health warnings, on e-commerce platforms.

* HC directed the MCD commissioner to examine if a cooperative like Amul or Mother dairy can be involved in setting up a collection centre at Ghogha Dairy here so that dairy owners have a ready consumer for their produced milk.

* HC asked the jail authorities here to treat as representation a plea by alleged conman Sukesh Chandrashekar seeking five virtual meetings with his counsel every week.

* Stating that it should not act as a "super regulator", the HC refused to interfere with the alleged fraud committed by Axis Bank to make "undue profits" through sale and purchase of shares in Max Life Insurance.

* Pregnant woman’s bodily autonomy and right of self-determination are an intrinsic part of her fundamental rights, the HC has observed while allowing a woman to terminate her 22-week pregnancy from a transient live-in relationship. PTI SKV ADS RHL