<h1>Aadhaar accepted as voter ID for special electoral roll; government ordered to respond on alleged nepotism; varied judicial orders issued</h1> The Supreme Court on Sep 8 issued multiple procedural and substantive directions: it ordered Aadhaar be accepted as voter ID for a special electoral roll revision in Bihar and told the Election Commission to comply by Sep 9; asked the central government to file its response in three weeks to a PIL alleging a state chief minister awarded contracts to relatives; dismissed a political party's challenge to quashing of a defamation case against a state chief minister; kept status quo over a proposed tiger reserve area; noted withdrawal of an activist's witness application; refused to extend interim bail of a convict in a 2002 murder; queried a state over an acting police chief and asked UPSC to fast-track recommendations; listed several bail, DA arrears and money-laundering matters for further hearing; a judge recused from a corporate investigation petition; and restored a widow's property rights.