The declare got here in a press release expressing solidarity with the graduating batch of NLSIU over the cancellation of their convocation.
NALSAR’s SBC acknowledged NLSIU’s statutory design below which the CJI serves as ex-officio Chancellor and convenes the convocation. The assertion famous that NLSIU college students had the truth is agreed to the CJI’s presence on the ceremony.
It mentioned that college students had been later requested to subject a public letter “re-inviting” the CJI, a situation added solely after that settlement. This improvement has been condemned.
On who made the demand, the SBC mentioned that the precise sequence of occasions might solely be clarified by direct stakeholders. Nonetheless, it was made clear to the Council that NLSIU’s administration itself had not requested for such a letter, the SBC’s assertion mentioned. The NLISU’s college students’ rejection of the demand for such a letter is what led to the convocation being referred to as off, the assertion added.
The SBC additional mentioned that if this demand was comprised of the CJI’s workplace, it might be unlucky because the workplace would then have prioritised public discourse over the scholars’ pursuits.
“We additionally wish to be aware that if such request of a ‘public letter’ was made by the workplace of the CJI, it’s extremely unlucky because the workplace of the CJI apparently most well-liked creating appropriate public discourse within the curiosity of their workplace over the pursuits of the scholars. We salute the principled stance of the scholars of the Batch of 2026 once they rejected this request and stood by their earlier act of dissent,” it mentioned.
