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A Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana invoked Article 142 of the Constitution on 1 September 2026 to quash FIRs registered against protesters who took part in nationwide agitations over the NEET UG 2026 paper leak between 20 and 25 July. The bench excluded 2,873 individuals with prior criminal antecedents from this relief, and Solicitor General Tushar Mehta assured the court that no fresh FIRs would be registered over the same protests. The Centre also told the court that a policy for compensating families of students who died by suicide linked to the NEET 2026 controversy was being finalised within three months. Following the order, the Cockroach Janata Party called off a protest march it had planned for 5 September.