Coronavirus impact: Supreme Court to conduct hearings via video conferencing from today

New Delhi: The Supreme Court will formally begin on Monday tackling its work through video-conferencing in a bid to further limit human interface and the spread of Covid-19 in the court. A full court meeting has also been called by the CJI to discuss further measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus.

In a first, the judges and lawyers appearing before them will be in separate rooms. The judges will be sitting in their rooms, while the lawyers will argue from a designated room in the court complex. Only one such court will sit on Monday comprising Chief Justice of India SA Bobde, and the chairman of the e-committee, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, indicating perhaps that the court was testing the efficacy of such an arrangement before implementing it in all courts. The Supreme Court has taken a number of steps in recent days to ward off the spread of the corona threat. Among other things, it has drastically cut back on the number of judges sitting in court and the number of cases being taken up daily by the benches.