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Bar Council reverses Nalsar ban, seeks report on anti-CJI campaign
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has withdrawn its blanket ban on enrolling Nalsar University of Law's 2026 graduates as advocates, hours after imposing it. Instead, BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has…
The Story in Brief
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has withdrawn its blanket ban on enrolling Nalsar University of Law's 2026 graduates as advocates, hours after imposing it. Instead, BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has asked Nalsar vice-chancellor to submit, within three days, a report naming students, teachers, or outsiders who initiated a campaign opposing Chief Justice Surya Kant's participation in the convocation.
The controversy stems from a student petition questioning the choice of the Chief Justice after his reported 'cockroaches' remark about unemployed youth activists. Around 450 of Nalsar's 1,400 students supported the objection. The BCI's reversal cited the 'innocence' of the majority, but the inquiry continues.
The Indian Opinion
The BCI's sweeping ban was a spectacular overreaction. A regulator punishing an entire batch for a student campaign is disproportionate, but so is framing this as a simple free-speech issue. The Chief Justice's alleged 'cockroaches' remark that sparked the protest was itself intemperate. Now watch: will Nalsar's report name only students, or will it also identify the 'handful of teachers and outsiders' the BCI blames? That list will tell us if this is a genuine probe or a political fix for a party MP who chairs the council.
Sources (3): livemint.com, news.abplive.com, indiatvnews.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 3 sources linked above.
