India’s national regulator for lawyers reverses an order that had barred an entire graduating class from being enrolled as advocates at NALSAR University of Law. The reversal comes hours after the decision triggers threats of protests from a rapidly growing youth movement, which had labeled the proposed action with derogatory terms.
According to reports, the Bar Council had initially ordered that no graduates from the 2026 class at NALSAR be enrolled as advocates until further notice. After the public backlash and protest threats, the council withdraws that restriction and signals a change from its earlier position.
The outlets’ accounts focus on the sequence of events and the cause of the reversal—public reaction and threatened demonstrations—while describing the same underlying action by the Bar Council: a temporary blanket bar tied to a specific graduating batch at one law school and the subsequent decision to backtrack shortly afterward.
