BITS Law School Students Finish Runners-Up at AIL National Moot Court Competition 2026
Students of BITS Law School, Athirai Anand and Swara Mishra, secured the Runners-Up position at the 16th Edition Checkmate 2026: AIL National Moot Court Competition, organised by the Army Institute of Law, Mohali.
Both students are pursuing B.A. LL.B. (Hons) at BITS Law School. Their performance placed them among the leading teams at the national-level moot court competition.
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22 teams qualified for the competition after the memorial rounds. Anand and Mishra successfully advanced through the oral rounds and eventually finished as Runners-Up.
For their performance, the team received a cash prize of ₹36,000. The students also acknowledged the academic assistance provided by faculty members while preparing for the competition, particularly in understanding the criminal law issues forming part of the moot proposition.
They expressed their gratitude in the following statement:
“We are extremely grateful to our esteemed professors, Prof. Anupama Arigala, Assistant Professor of Practice, and Prof. (Dr.) Anupama Sharma, Associate Professor of Law, for their invaluable guidance and academic support in relation to the criminal law aspects of the moot proposition. As third-semester students who are yet to formally study the course of Criminal Law, we particularly appreciate their generosity in sharing their time, expertise and knowledge, which greatly contributed to our understanding of the subject.
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We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the institutional support and guidance granted to us by the Student Moot & Competitions Committee.”
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