The NEET FIRs vanished; paperwork remains
The Supreme Court closed FIRs linked to July 20–25 protests, while the Centre gets three months to frame a compensation policy for families of students who died by suicide in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 crisis.
The court closed the FIRs; the compensation policy is still due.
The Supreme Court has quashed FIRs linked to student protests held across states and Union territories from July 20 to 25, 2026, and barred fresh cases over those incidents. FIRs specifically placed before it from the Centre, Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Assam were also quashed, according to LiveLaw.
A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana, invoked Article 142. The court said the order rested on the “peculiar facts and circumstances” and was not a precedent. Delhi Police may still register a fresh FIR concerning 2,873 people it describes as having serious criminal antecedents, limited to alleged bodily harm and property damage, NDTV reported.
The court also recorded the Centre’s commitment to frame a nationwide compensation policy within three months for families of students who died by suicide in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 crisis. That is a deadline for the policy, not yet for payment. The details—eligibility, amount and implementation—remain unpublished. The paperwork, as usual, has survived the verdict.