Ten different petitions filed by different petitioners, including Shehla Rashid, Shah Faesal, ML Sharma, CPI(M) leader MY Tarigami, NC leader Mohammad Akbar Lone and others were listed before the bench.
Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha has left behind a letter, which has gone viral as well. In that, he explains that he had problems paying back loans and had faced harassment from the Income Tax Department.
An affidavit was filed by the Centre seeking a direction for 20% re-verification of the final draft of the NRC in the districts bordering Bangladesh and 10% in the rest of Assam.
India's first Lokpal Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose is a member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) at present, who had retired from Supreme Court in May 2017