Court Hearings to be Broadcasted Live? Central Govt plans!
The committee was formed, according to Union minister Kiran Rijiju, to develop uniform criteria for live coverage of court proceedings. In response to a question in the current lok sabha session, Union Law and Justice minister Kiran Rijiju said: "Aside from that, a sub-committe has been established under the guidance of the supreme court Electronics Committee to create model guidelines for live broadcasts." The terms and conditions reported by these committees will be sent to the High Courts' Computer Committees for review.
In the first phase, cases of national and constitutional significance will be televised live for 3 months on a trial basis. Later, the structure will be expanded to accommodate the facilities. He said the High Courts of Gujarat, Orissa, Karnataka, Jharkhand, patna and madhya pradesh had made it possible for the media and interested parties to participate in the proceedings by televising live hearings.
According to an official representative, virtual sessions of cases will be discontinued, and cases will now be heard solely in physical mode. Due to the Covid-19 epidemic, physical hearings were halted in march 2020. Limited physical hearings were then resumed before to the onset of the second and third waves. For the very first time since march 2020, all of the benches will be in physical mode to take up cases.