SC: Bhatt's plea rejected, Rao to surrender, Mishra can travel

• SC rejected former IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt's plea to suspend his 20-year jail sentence in a 1996 drug seizure case.
• SC allowed Ashish Mishra, accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, to travel to his hometown for his daughter's board exams.
• SC directed former Telangana SIB chief T Prabhakar Rao, accused in a phone-tapping case, to surrender by Friday 11 am.
• SC asked a committee to recommend Vice Chancellor names for two Kerala technical universities due to a deadlock between the CM and Governor.
• SC directed Madhya Pradesh DGP to form a 3-member SIT to investigate a tribal man's death and granted interim protection to minister Govind Singh Rajput.

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