Today, the Gujarat High Court conveyed its shock in response to revelations of rape, molestation, discrimination, homophobia, and favoritism at Gujarat National Law University (GNLU), Gandhinagar. These distressing findings were detailed in a report submitted by a fact-finding committee.

A bench comprising Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice Aniruddha Mayee strongly criticized the GNLU administration for its previous assertions that no untoward incidents had occurred at the law school.

The report was submitted by the committee chaired by former High Court judge Justice Harsha Devani. This committee had been formed to investigate allegations of sexual harassment and homophobia at GNLU, following revelations in a news report. The committee had been reconstituted pursuant to an order in a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) initiated by the High Court. This action followed allegations reported in the Ahmedabad Mirror last year, including the rape of one student and harassment of another queer student at GNLU.

Today, the Court lauded the committee for being categorical in its findings and for doing a "tremendous job". On the revelations made in the report, the Court said,

Questioning how such incidents can take place at a national law university, the Court recalled that the GNLU Registrar had earlier filed an affidavit denying the allegations and urging the Court to close the suo motu proceedings.