New Delhi: The Patiala House Court today (July 15) remanded two law students arrested for causing disturbance in the Supreme Court and abusing judges on July 10 to 14-day judicial custody.

The Delhi Police had arrested the Lucknow University students. One of the accused, who appeared as a petitioner-in-person challenging the Allahabad high court's decision in Prabal Pratap vs. State of Uttar Pradesh, verbally abused the judges on bench and threw his case papers in the courtroom. The two have been identified as Prabal Pratap Singh, 24, a third-year law student and Chander Bhan, 23, a second-year student.

According to the police, quoted by Times of India, a case was registered at Tilak Marg police station based on a complaint from Supreme Court security staff about the incident. TOI report noted that the two individuals were medically examined at the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences (IHBAS) and found to be mentally sound and that pamphlets containing objectionable language were recovered from their person. A Delhi court had since remanded them to two days of police custody.

The incident

The disruption occurred on July 10 before a bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and Alok Aradhe. Pratap allegedly addressed the bench in confrontational terms, demanding that Justice Vishwanathan order a first information report against Assistant Commissioner of Police of Lucknow.

According to a report by Bar and Bench, when the judge questioned whether he was attempting to give the court orders, Pratap responded that everything was already on record before flinging his case papers into the air and hurling abuses inside the courtroom. He reportedly continued to verbally abuse the Chief Justice of India even as security personnel were escorting him out.

A separate report by Bar and Bench noted that the bench's written order described Pratap's conduct as "incoherent and unparliamentary utterances" made in place of actual submissions.

Court's response and charges filed

In its July 10 order, the bench did not propose to take any action against Pratap, taking into consideration "the petitioner's condition," reported Bar and Bench. The court also dismissed the appeal as it found no grounds to interfere with the Allahabad high court's April 2026 ruling.

Even though the Supreme Court did not immediately pursue legal action against Pratap, he now face allegations of obstructing court staff who tried to restrain him. The charges against and specific role played by the co-accused, Chander Bhan, and have not yet been made clear, even as he has been remanded in the same case.

Note: This report has been updated with news of the students' judicial remand.

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