2 MP policemen suspended for beating up man
nBHOPAL: Two policemen were suspended and an inquiry ordered a day after a video clip showed the two mercilessly beating an “intoxicated” man in Chhindwara, police said on Sunday.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Chhindwara, Shashank Garg said, “The video is old in which head constable Krishna Dongre and constable Ashish were seen beating a man. Sub-divisional officer of police SP Singh has been deputed with an inquiry into it.
As we have learnt the man used to create ruckus in intoxicated state in his locality and police had been called to control him in the past as well.”
The 30-year-old man who was thrashed, has been identified as Nanu.
In the purported video, one of the two policemen were seen hitting the man with cane on his head and other parts of the body even after he fell unconscious.
The man was later dropped at his residence, said police.
Superintendent of Police Chhindwara, Vivek Agrawal said, “There will be exemplary punishment against them if they are found guilty in the inquiry... No serious injury was found in medical examination[of the man] on Saturday. However, since the incident is old it might be a reason why there was no serious injury.”
nNEWDELHI: The Covid-19 outbreak forced the Supreme Court to resort to virtual court hearings so that the safety of lawyers, litigants and media personnel was not jeopardised, but such hearings will not replace or be a substitute for physical courts, Supreme Court judge, Justice DY Chandrachud, said on Sunday.
“I want to dissuade people from the idea that virtual court hearings are some sort of a panacea,” justice Chandrachud said at a webinar organised by Nyaya Forum of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research, Hyderabad on the topic Future of Virtual Courts and Access to Justice in India.
“They will not be able to replace physical court hearings. We had to resort to virtual court hearings because Covid-19 descended without warning and we had no other choice. We had to protect those who come to court –lawyers, litigants, media personnel, paralegals, interns”, he said.
The Supreme Court, which is under complete shutdown due to the virus threat, has been hearing only urgent cases since March 23 via video conferencing through the Vidyo app that can be downloaded on phones and desktops.
Justice Chandrachud said that technology was an inseparable adjunct to rule of law and will have to be employed as a critical element in court design.
The judge, also the chairperson of the e-committee at the Supreme Court, said that the digitisation of courts including e-filing must be standardized across the country
The filing of cases in the Supreme Court is set to undergo a radical change with the introduction of the new e-filing module in the near future.
The module will provide personalized information to every advocate-on-record of cases which have been filed by them, their own causelist of cases, details of pleadings filed by them and pleadings filed by others in cases in which they appear.
“We as judges have a vital role to ensure that young members of the Bar are trained and we have to do the hand-holding ourselves”, justice Chandrachud said.