Behind the Sanskrit University remand: what a Division Bench said about pleadings and interim relief

Background

The dispute the Supreme Court has now sent back to a Single Bench had already been through a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court.
Justice Anil K Narendran and Justice Muralee Krishna S set aside a Single Judge's interim order of October 30, 2026 that had let sixteen suspended students sit the university examinations.
The Bench found that the writ petition pleaded no basis for anyone other than the PhD scholars to appear for the examination.
It recorded that there was a total lack of pleading on the entitlement of the other petitioners.
Because the pleadings did not make out a strong prima facie case under the standards laid down by the Supreme Court, the interim order could not stand.
The appeal was filed by Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit.
The point of practice is that interim relief in a writ petition rests on what the petition itself pleads.