[retired]

The Pencil is covered through the Apple Care of your iPad, even when purchased separately.

Using a Pencil without an iPad and wanting Apple Care on it is a bit of a niche use case. And do you really need Apple Care on a $79/$99/$129 product?

[SanjayMehta]

I wanted to add a Pencil to an existing iPad.

Company policy required me to get AppleCare for the new device, there was no way to add it to just the Pencil. At least on the India site.