SC considers Centre's plea, closes cases on evacuation of students from Ukraine

The Supreme Court on Monday closed two cases after the Centre said it had completed the mammoth job of evacuating 22,500 stranded Indian students from the war zone in Ukraine.

A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Krishna Murari took note Attorney General K K Venugopal's submissions that the Centre, besides bringing back stranded students, is also looking into the representation on their studies being hit by the ongoing war.

Now nothing remains in this matter as students have come back, the bench observed at the outset. Lawyer Vishal Tiwari, who filed a PIL in his personal capacity, raised the issue of the continuation of studies of those rescued from the war-hit nation.

A mammoth job has been done by the government and 22,500 students have been brought back. The government is looking into the representation (of students) and the government will look into it, Venugopal said. Let the government take a decision, the top law officer said.