Two law students arrested for disrupting Supreme Court

Two law students were arrested in New Delhi on July 15 for allegedly disrupting a Supreme Court hearing with abusive language and disorderly conduct earlier this month. The students, identified as Prabal Pratap Singh, 24, and Chander Bhan, 23, are both enrolled at Lucknow University and were co-petitioners in the case being heard.

The incident occurred on July 10 inside Court No. 13 of the Supreme Court, where a bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe was hearing a special leave petition filed by the students. According to police, Singh, who was representing himself, disrupted the proceedings by using abusive and unparliamentary language and throwing case papers inside the courtroom. When Supreme Court security staff intervened to restrain him, he allegedly used criminal force, obstructing them from performing their official duties.

Videos of the proceedings, widely shared online, show Singh throwing papers and heard verbally abusing Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, who was not part of the bench hearing the matter. At the outset of the hearing, Singh had addressed the bench in an unusual manner, stating, "Mr. judicial servant, I order you to order the registration...