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Delhi High court to partially resume physical hearings from September 1 with 5 Judges Bench on a rotation basis, the court’s Registrar General Manoj Jain said Today.
Five Judge benche of the Delhi HC will hold physical hearings on rotational basis while remaining benches will continue to take up matters through video conferencing. The court has also extended the suspension of its functioning till the end of this month.
The courts all over India is suspended physical hearings in wake of Coronavirus threat lockdown that was started in March. The proceedings are being conducted digitally via video conferencing. Despite the lockdown restrictions and other inconveniences, the Supreme Court had recently reached a milestone by conducting 15,596 hearings in 100 days through video conferencing.
As Coronavirus rages on in India, the SC has held 15,596 hearings in the past 100 days via video-conferencing, a statement released by the apex court said. Since the first lockdown was implemented, the top court has constituted 1021 benches which dealt with 15,596 matters, represented by 50,475 advocates with 4,300 cases being disposed of. The statement also stated that these hearing include 587 main matters and 434 review petitions in spite of 125 registry staff and immediate family members got infected with COVID-19.
