4 min learnHyderabadUp to date: Aug 10, 2026 05:37 AM IST
A piece of scholars on the NALSAR College of Legislation, Hyderabad, have opposed having Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant because the chief visitor at their upcoming convocation.
About 450 college students of the college from completely different batches, together with the outgoing LLB and LLM batch, have written to the Vice Chancellor, the Registrar and Professors of the college requesting them to not invite the CJI, citing his recent comments with regard to a petition against alleged police excesses through the NEET protests final month.
The college has a complete of 1400 college students.
The college is but to announce the date of convocation or affirm who can be the chief visitor. Historically, although, the incumbent CJI has been delivering the convocation handle at NALSAR for years.
‘Uncertainty over ceremony’
In mild of the scholars’ opposition, there’s a likelihood that the college will scrap the convocation ceremony this 12 months, a college member mentioned, pleading anonymity.
The primary illustration to the authorities was despatched on July 23 by 70 members of the outgoing batch of LLB college students. By July 25, courses of 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, and 2031, comprising about 380 college students, expressed solidarity with the assertion and issued their separate letters to the college administration.
On July 22, the Supreme Court docket had declined to provoke suo motu proceedings to take cognizance of alleged police excesses through the July 20 crackdown on pupil protesters in Delhi. When a lawyer submitted that there was videographic proof of police brutality, CJI Kant orally declined to look at the movies, saying that the courtroom’s time shouldn’t be “wasted”.
Of their first letter written a day after this remark, the scholars wrote, “Our issues come up from the refusal of the Honourable Supreme Court docket Bench led by the Hon’ble CJI to permit pressing itemizing of a plea in regards to the brutal police motion in opposition to protestors… A convocation is supposed to be a second the place the College’s personal values, together with a dedication to constitutional rights, entry to justice and reasoned engagement with grievances are visibly mirrored within the selections it makes. We really feel that receiving our levels from a dignitary whose latest public conduct…seems dismissive of significant allegations of police brutality in opposition to protesting residents sits uncomfortably with what now we have been taught to worth throughout our time at NALSAR…We’d subsequently request the college to strongly rethink the selection of Chief Visitor for this convocation…”
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Within the subsequent couple of days, a number of college students of various batches at NALSAR wrote to the college administration on the identical traces. The 2029 passing-out batch wrote, “…We discover ourselves in settlement with the issues articulated by the graduating batch. We additionally imagine that their illustration raises questions that reach past the speedy pursuits of 1 graduating class and as a substitute, concern the Constitutional ethos that Nalsar seeks to embody.”
‘Vehement opposition’
As per the letter written by the 2028 batch, the scholars stand in “vehement opposition” to the presence of the present CJI on the convocation.
The letter from the 2030 batch of scholars was extra direct in its wording. It learn, “As reported on file (CJI made the feedback) ‘Please don’t waste our time. We don’t have time to look at these movies’. Even previously, the CJI had made an announcement calling youth “parasites and cockroaches attacking the system’… we imagine that such conduct from the best workplace of justice in India doesn’t embody what our Structure stands for and doesn’t align with the values NALSAR has stood by all through its historical past.”
To make sure, the CJI had issued a clarification, saying he had been “misquoted” by sections of the media and that his criticism was directed solely at those that had joined completely different professions by “faux or bogus levels”.
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When The Indian Categorical reached out to the NALSAR college administration, the V-C was unavailable for remark. A senior member of the school, nevertheless, mentioned, “The administration has been very tight-lipped about this. There are talks that they may cancel the convocation this time round to stop additional embarrassment to the Chief Justice of India.”
