In view of the extension of Nationwide Lockdown till May 3 for Containing the spread of Covid-19, the Delhi High Court Suspends Functioning till May 03 as well.
The Administrative and General Supervision Committee of the High Court passed an order that the mentioning and hearing of urgent matters by the High Court via video conferencing shall continue as before. It added that the number of Benches to hear matters through video conferencing would be increased further.
It was also mentioned that all the pending matters listed before the High Court, including the Courts of Registrars and Joint Registrars, during April 16, 2020 to May 2, 2020 stand adjourned.
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It was further ordered that the matters listed between 16.04.2020 and 02.05.2020 in the subordinate courts be also adjourned en bloc and information in this regard be uploaded on District Court website.
The High Court has also directed all the District and Sessions Judges to ensure that video-conferencing is done through ‘Cisco WebEx’.
District and Sessions Judge would be at liberty to:
- take appropriate steps to personally ensure that the mechanism of mentioning of urgent matters in the concerned District is quick and efficient, and
- depute Judicial Officers for hearing the matters, related to bail and urgent Civil/Injunction cases, corresponding to the need and requirement of the concerned District.
The High Court authority insisted on the proper practise of social distancing norm for any hearing taking place within the Court complex.
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