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.
Justice Kait passed the directions in a criminal case after 'certain unidentified persons' joined the proceedings through video conferencing & could be heard talking continuously.
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 fresh SOP issued Sunday by the top court stated that fresh cases, which could have been listed for hearing before the pandemic-triggered lockdown, will be listed and heard first.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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