SC'S HYBRID HEARING FROM MARCH

The Supreme Court is likely to start hybrid hearing, physical and video conferencing, from the first week of March, almost a year after it switched over to virtual hearing through videoconferencing on March 23 last year.

Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde conveyed this on Monday to Bar Council of India Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, and members of the Supreme Court Bar Association SC Advocates-on-Record Association.

He told them that the judges of the top court are "willing" to resume the physical court hearing and he has instructed the court's secretary general to get the technical problems resolved at the earliest. The three lawyers' organisations were clamouring for resumption of normal court hearing for long.

The CJI told them that there were some "medical and technical" issues which prohibited an early resumption of both physical and video hearing.