Supreme Court advocate Disha Wadekar’s legal challenge to the new University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines was an attempt to reshape how cases of discrimination were identified, reported and addressed within college campuses. It brought her to the Supreme Court in 2019, seeking enforcement and strengthening of anti-discrimination regulations that she said existed for years but were never implemented. “We realised that the sexual harassment regulations and the ragging regulations had much more stringent and procedural mechanisms. And most importantly, both the ragging regulations and the sexual harassment regulation had an enforcement clause.” she added. Along with Abida Tadvi and Radhika Vemula, she approached the Supreme Court with two primary prayers.

Source: The Telegraph February 02, 2026 11:51 UTC