Delhi Court Grants Bail To Two Law Students Arrested Over Ruckus In Supreme Court, Deprecates Their Conduct

A Delhi Court has granted bail to two Lucknow University law students arrested in connection with disruption of proceedings before the Supreme Court last week, during which one of them hurled abuses at the Chief Justice of India, flung case papers inside the courtroom and created a commotion.

Judicial Magistrate First Class Ravi at the Patiala House Courts granted the relief to 24-year-old Prabal Pratap Singh, a third-year law student, and 23-year-old Chander Bhan, a second-year law student at Lucknow University.

In its order passed on July 27, the judge observed that a litigant, howsoever aggrieved by the outcome of his cause or howsoever unrepresented, does not acquire licence to hurl papers in open court or direct abusive language at the presiding authority, much less at the office of the Chief Justice of India.

The Court noted that CJI office is an institution that stands as the final guarantor of the very rights and liberties that every citizen, including the accused, invokes when knocking on the doors of the judiciary.

“Conduct of this nature, if allowed to pass unremarked, carries the risk of being perceived as tacitly acceptable, and it is necessary to state clearly, as part of the record of these proceedings, that such conduct is not condoned and stands unequivocally deprecated. It is expected that the accused, will in future conduct themselves before this or any other court with the restraint and decorum that the administration of justice necessarily demands,” the Court said.

At the same time, it noted that the Supreme Court itself dealt with the matter with considerable equanimity and did not propose to take any action against the accused.

The judge observed that an institution of the stature and permanence of the Supreme Court is not diminished by the intemperate conduct of a single agitated, unrepresented litigant, and it is only appropriate that subordinate courts, in assessing the consequences that ought to flow from such conduct at the stage of bail, be guided by the same institutional restraint and equanimity that the highest court itself has demonstrated.

The Court noted that the investigation qua both accused was complete, the site was inspected, relevant statements were recorded, medical records were seized, and no further recovery or custodial interrogation was required.

“No material has been placed before this court to show that either accused is required for any further investigative purpose,” the judge said.

It added: “The gravity of the language allegedly used, however deprecable, cannot by itself convert offences that are otherwise non- heinous in nature into grounds for indefinite pre-trial incarceration, particularly once the investigation stands substantially complete. The accused have roots in society, verified rural addresses, and there is no material to suggest any real risk of their fleeing from justice, tampering with evidence, or influencing witnesses, both of whom are police/security officials unlikely to be swayed.”

According to a statement issued by Delhi Police, an FIR was registered at Tilak Marg Police Station based on a complaint by the Supreme Court security staff regarding the incident that occurred on July 10 before a Bench of Justices KV Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe.

Prabal Pratap Singh, who was appearing as a petitioner-in-person, disrupted the proceedings by using abusive language against the judges and throwing his case files inside the courtroom. Police also accused him of obstructing Supreme Court security personnel in the discharge of their duties when they attempted to restrain him.

The incident took place during the hearing of Singh's petition challenging an April 2026 judgment of the Allahabad High Court.

The video of the incident meanwhile became viral on social media.