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Supreme Court ruled out possibility of conducting physical hearing untill a 7-Judge panel review and decide after four weeks
New Delhi, July 22, 2020: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of conducting physical hearings for now due to the persisting COVID-19 pandemic and said a 7-judge panel will review the situation after four weeks.
The Supreme Court Bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said that the 7-judge committee of the Supreme court headed by Justice N V Ramana would consider after four weeks the aspect of re-starting physical hearing in the top court. The CJI's observation came when a lawyer sought resumption of physical court hearing to deal with a batch of petitions relating to grant of quota in promotions to SC/ST employees in various states.
The Supreme court has been holding courts through video conferencing since March 25 due to the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread coronavirus (COVID-19) and has decided to continue with the hearing through virtual courts till further orders even after the lifting of the restrictions.
The committee had considered the representations of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) and the Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) and had held that it was not in favour of resumption of open court hearings till June last. Favouring resumption of open courts, the SCBA had also said, "Administration of justice cannot remain virtually closed for an indefinite period."
The Supreme Court Bench said the judges' panel would examine as to what kind of hearing can be allowed to take place. Earlier, the panel, in the second week of June, had not agreed to the demands of bar bodies including SCBA to resume regular courtroom hearings for the time being and had said that it would review later the functioning of the Supreme Court keeping in mind the pandemic situation.
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