New Delhi: Hearing two writ petitions seeking evacuation of students and other Indian nationals stuck in Ukraine, the Supreme Court told the Attorney General for India, K.K. Venugopal, that it was not saying “a single word about the Centre” but was “concerned” about the students. It also called “unfortunate” the fact that “we haven’t learned from past situation of wars”.The AG informed the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice N.V. Ramana that Bengaluru resident Fathima Ahana Mohamed Ashraf and around 250 students stuck at the Ukraine border, for whose evacuation one of the two petitions had been filed, had crossed over to Romania and would be brought to India soon.The AG said that when he conveyed the court’s concerns of yesterday to IAS officer and Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office P.K. Mishra, who informed him that Ashraf and others have been contacted.On March 3, the apex court had urged AG Venugopal to use his good offices to help Indian students.“Please look and see if you can help”, the CJI had told the AG.Also read: After Walking From Kharkiv, Indians in Pioschyn Wait Anxiously To Get Out of War ZoneOn Friday, when the AG expressed displeasure at several pleas on the same matter being filed in various courts, the Supreme Court directed high courts to stop entertaining and issuing directions in similar pleas when the apex court was already hearing the issue.“Mr AG, you can inform your counsels appearing in state high courts that once we are hearing and Centre is taking steps, there’s no meaning in every high court entertaining and granting directions. Bring it to high courts; notice that we are seized of matter,” CJI Ramana told Venugopal, according to LiveLaw.Venugopal submitted before the bench, also comprising Justices A.S. Bopanna and Hima Kolhi, that 17,000 stranded Indians had been brought back from the conflict zone in Ukraine.When the bench also asked the Centre to consider setting up a helpdesk for the families of the stranded people, the AG told the bench that the government is as concerned as the court.“We are not saying a single word about centre. We appreciate that. But we are concerned about these students,” the CJI said.“It’s unfortunate we haven’t learnt from past situation of wars, etc. We don’t have much say in this. But the anxiety is about students,” the CJI added.The apex court criticised the “shoddy drafting and hasty filing” of the second petition, filed by lawyer Vishal Tiwari, “which the bench felt was an attempt to gain publicity by taking advantage of the situation,” reported LiveLaw.