Important cases heard in Delhi High Court on Friday

Important cases heard in the Delhi High Court on Friday, March 1: * HC expressed its displeasure over the cutting down of trees in the Southern Ridge here for constructing a road near the South Asian University and said if authorities want to convert the capital into the Thar desert, they should say so on an affidavit.

* HC said vindictiveness aimed at eroding a father-daughter relationship is an act of extreme cruelty to the father and gross inhumanity to the child.

* HC pulled up the MCD over delayed payment of salaries to its employees and its failure to implement the seventh pay commission's recommendations, cautioning that it would direct dissolution of the civic body if it does not make itself financially viable.

* HC sought the stand of Income Tax department on an appeal challenging an order which had set aside the Central Information Commission's decision directing disclosure of information about the PM CARES Fund to an RTI applicant.

* HC asked the Army to respond to allegations of clearing a green patch on the Central Ridge in the cantonment area of the national capital.

* HC set aside an order of the Central Information Commission directing the Central Board of Direct Taxes to provide information relating to Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, looking after the construction and management of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, under the RTI Act.

* HC said policing is not tailored to serve the interests of any specific religious or cultural community and there can't be any room for anonymity in investigations.