SC to have hybrid hearings soon, lawyers seek return of physical hearings
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Mon, Feb 1 2021 20:51 IST |
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Chief Justice of India, Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde. Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, Feb 1 : The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Monday said Chief Justice S.A. Bobde has told the bar leaders that a hybrid system of hearing, which includes physical appearance, may begin soon amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
In a press statement, BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said: The Chief Justice of India made it clear that the judges of Supreme Court themselves are willing to restart the open court hearings but there are medical and technical issues which the registry of Supreme Court of India is trying to sort out and solve. Therefore, it will be done gradually.
SC to begin physical hearings in hybrid manner soon; normal functioning likely by first week of March The apex court has been hearing cases through video-conferencing since March last year amid the pandemic and several bar bodies and lawyers, including former SCBA President Vikas Singh, have been demanding that physical hearing should resume immediately. File image of the Supreme Court of India. PTI New Delhi: Chief Justice of India SA Bobde told the Bar leaders on Monday that physical hearing in the Supreme Court will soon resume in a hybrid manner amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has said.
Two pleas were filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over the tractor rally violence on the Republic Day with one seeking setting up of a commission, headed by a retired apex court judge, to inquire into the incident while the other urged it to direct the media not to declare farmers as terrorist without any evidence. The tractor parade on Tuesday that was to highlight the demands of farmer unions to repeal three new agri laws dissolved into anarchy on the streets of the national capital as thousands of protesters broke through barriers, fought with the police, overturned vehicles and hoisted a religious flag from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort.