the row continues to simmer While the a move that was later rolled back amid backlash. The Bar Council of India (BCI) has been embroiled in a controversy recently over its order to freeze the enrolment of the entire 2026 graduating batch of NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
Nobody can stop them, and we will not allow this,” said the CJI after senior advocate K Parameshwar mentioned the matter before the bench, HT reported earlier. “As students of law, our concern is narrower and more specific to us as a graduating batch. A convocation is meant to be a moment where the University’s own values, including a commitment to constitutional rights, access to justice, and reasoned engagement with grievances, are visibly reflected in the choices it makes,” the students wrote in their email, as per news agency PTI. But the order was rolled back within hours after backlash with Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke also threatening a protest. “The BCI is unnecessarily taking action in this matter. If students have a cause or a reason to protest, they have a right to protest.
On Friday, CJI Surya Kant slammed the BCI amid the NALSAR row and said the Council had “no business” interfering with students’ right to protest. He said the court would not allow students to be stopped from raising their voice through lawful and peaceful protests as he restrained the BCI and all state bar councils from pursuing any punitive or criminal action against students and faculty university in connection with the controversy. Addressing a letter to his ‘dear young friends’, Mishra said the developments of the past few days had caused “concern and anguish” among a section of the student community and acknowledged that whenever students felt hurt or aggrieved, their concerns deserved to be heard “with patience, sensitivity and respect”.
