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With the Covid positive cases among staff and their family members suddenly surging to an alarming level, the CJI and judges decided that utmost precaution was required to be taken to prevent a situation last year when as many as six SC judges had got infected with Coronavirus.
Facing a grim scenario of 50 per cent of its staff testing positive for Covid, the Supreme Court on Monday decided that all Judges would function from their homes and the benches will assemble through video links.
The entire SC premises, including the courtrooms, are being sanitised and the benches will assemble an hour later than the scheduled time of either 10.30 or 11.30 am.
Prior to this, many benches led by CJI S A Bobde and Justices N V Ramana, R F Nariman, U U Lalit, A M Khanwilkar, Ashok Bhushan, L N Rao, S A Nazir, Navin Sinha were assembling on a bench in the courtrooms.
With the Covid positive cases among staff and their family members suddenly surging to an alarming level, the CJI and judges decided that utmost precaution was required to be taken to prevent a situation last year when as many as six SC judges had got infected with Coronavirus.
But with adequate precautions taken since then, the incidents of coronavirus infection among staff had reduced considerably.
With the SC E-Committee, headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud, proactively purchasing 1,600 video links for the purpose of conducting hearing of cases through video-conferencing, there is adequate bandwidth and links available with the SC to avoid disruption during the virtual hearing of cases.
The new president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, senior advocate Vikas Singh, had been pressing the CJI and other Judges for resuming a complete physical hearing in the Supreme Court just a month back. Singh was arguing that the non-opening of the courts for physical hearing was severely affecting the finances of the young lawyers.
If the SC had succumbed to the pressure and opened the courts for physical hearing, then the courts would have become the fertile field for spreading the Covid disease given the huge crowds of lawyers that gather every day for hearing along with litigants from all parts of the country.
The Delhi High Court, which had boldly decided to open up the courts for physical hearing, shut its doors for lawyers and reverted to virtual hearing given the surge of Covid cases in Delhi.
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