While some lawyers are not in favour of physical hearings citing health and family reasons, a few lawyer associations have called for graded resumption of offline hearings.
Move to embrace technology for dispensation of justice has come amid the Covid-19 pandemic that compelled Supreme Court to switch to digital courts to hear cases.
Parliamentary panel headed by BJP MP Bhupender Yadav proposes to bring changes in law to make virtual courts a permanent feature, though many lawyers are against this.
Supreme Court Advocate-On-Record Association expresses concern over staggered working of courts in the last 3 months and says it has left many lawyers in financial crisis.
Addressing NALSAR students, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, who heads the Supreme Court's e-committee, said a model is being framed for live-streaming hearings.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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