India, Aug. 11 -- The Bombay high court (HC) on Monday extended a one-time protection against attendance-related detention to students of Indian Law Society's (ILS's) Law College who were prevented from appearing for their semester-end examinations during the 2025-26 academic session solely because of shortage of attendance. The court said that the benefit would apply not only to the approximately 41 petitioners before it but also to other similarly placed students of the college who met the conditions laid down by the Supreme Court (SC).

A division bench of justice Farhan P Dubash and justice R I Chagla passed the order on August 10 in a batch of petitions arising from the college's decision to withhold the students' admit cards and pre...