Delhi Police Arrest Two Law Students Over Supreme Court Ruckus

Along with him another accused Chandar Bhan was also with him, who has also been taken into custody by the police. The accused hail from Uttar Pradesh and are law students.

Heated Exchange With Supreme Court Bench

In a hearing before a Supreme Court bench led by Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe on July 10, the third-year LLB student of Lucknow University, who appeared as petitioner-in-person without a lawyer, said that he was a “sovereign” and the judges were “judicial servants.” 

Pratap, representing himself, had a heated argument with the bench as he allegedly passed abusive comments directed at the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and tossed papers in the courtroom.

The court staff apprehended and took him out of the courtroom where he was detained and an FIR was lodged at Tilak Marg police station under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita on the basis of a complaint by the Supreme Court’s security personnel.

Medical Evaluation Conducted

According to sources, following observations made by the Supreme Court in regard to the conduct of the accused, the two law students were taken for a medical examination at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS), which stated that neither needed immediate psychiatric treatment. 

The police recovered pamphlets with objectionable words from their custody, said the officials who added that the investigation was in progress and both were remanded to two-day police custody for interrogation. 

CJI Calls for Upholding Institutional Dignity

Reacting to the incident, the Chief Justice of India, Surya Kant, asked the people to overlook the incident saying such things happen sometime and the focus should be on maintaining the dignity of our institutions.

"I would like to say that we all have a duty to uphold the dignity and image of all constitutional institutions. We all have a duty to protect them and ensure their prestige is maintained," he said.