The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research in Hyderabad has invited Chief Justice Surya Kant to be the chief guest at the upcoming convocation, the university’s vice-chancellor told The Indian Express. On July 22, a bench headed by the chief justice refused to urgently hear the petition. When the lawyer for the petitioners said that he could present video evidence of the police excesses, the chief justice had said the bench was “not interested” in watching them. The incumbent chief justice has been delivering the convocation address at the university for several years. The chief justice had claimed that he had been misquoted by sections of the media and that it was baseless to say that he criticised young people in general.