Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Friday March 28

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     Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Friday, March 28:

     * Restaurants cannot mandatorily levy service charge on food bills in a "camouflaged and coercive" manner as it is against public interest and would amount to unfair trade practice, the HC held.

     * HC asked Jammu and Kashmir MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh, alias Engineer Rashid, to deposit Rs 4 lakh with the prison authorities as travel expenses for attending Parliament.

     * HC set aside the order of Centre cancelling the Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) card of academician Ashok Swain.

     * HC granted interim bail for 10 days to Saleem Khan, arrested in a UAPA case linked to the alleged larger conspiracy behind the 2020 communal riots here.

     * HC refused to pass suo motu directions on a person's claim that his complaint to the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes for investigation against a judge has not been considered.

     * Justice Yashwant Varma, embroiled in the cash discovery row, did not find a mention in the recently constituted committees of judges on the administrative side of the HC.

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