SC judges judges to hold virtual hearings, over 50% staff test positive for Virus

Over 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 conferencing. At least 44 employees working on the premises of Supreme court had tested positive for the virus on Saturday alone.

The entire court premises comprising courtrooms are being sanitised and the benches will sit an hour late from the scheduled time on Monday as judges held a meeting over the situation. Benches, scheduled to sit at 10.30 am, will sit at 11.30 am, whereas those slated to sit at 1 am, will sit at 12 pm, Additional Registrar, DEU, said. Several benches led by CJI (Chief Justice of India) S A Bodbe and justices UU Lalit, Ashok Bhushan, K M Joseph, and R. Subhash Reddy will now assemble an hour late in the courtrooms. Meanwhile, the secretary-general of the SC has said that they are collating numbers about the COVID spread as contact tracing is being carried out. Delhi on Sunday, April 11, registered the highest one-day spike in coronavirus cases till date.