Govt assures no cases against peaceful NEET protesters, Wangchuk ends 26-day fast

For twenty-six days, activist Sonam Wangchuk offered his own body as testimony to a system's failure — a hunger strike born from the grief of students who lost their futures, and in some cases their lives, to a compromised examination. On Thursday evening in Gurgaon, the Indian government met him with a written promise: that those who marched peacefully in protest would not be punished for doing so. It is a moment that reminds us how accountability, when it arrives at all, often comes only after someone has paid an extraordinary personal price.