Delhi Police arrests two law students for using abusive language, disrupting Supreme Court proceedings

Delhi Police has arrested two law students of Lucknow University in connection with a recent Supreme Court hearing during which a litigant – one of the arrested students - hurled abuses at judges in the courtroom..The two students have been identified as 24-year-old Prabal Pratap Singh and 23-year-old Chander Bhan. They are third-year and second-year law students respectively at Lucknow University. According to a statement released by the police, a case has been registered at Tilak Marg police station on a statement made by the security staff of the Supreme Court regarding the incident which took place on July 10 before a Bench of Justices KV Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe.The NDTV reported that following the incident, the accused were medically examined by doctors at IHBAS. They were declared mentally sound, the report said. Several pamphlets containing objectionable language were recovered from the possession of the accused, it added.