New Delhi: While approving video recording and live-streaming of court proceedings, the Supreme Court in its judgment, quoted that ‘Sunlight is the best disinfectant’.
The bench today said that they want to implement the theory of ‘open court’ in a bid to decongest the court.
A law student Snehil Tripathi, senior lawyer Indira Jaising and NGO Centre For Accountability and Systemic Change filed petitions after which the decision came.
The bench observed, “We don’t see any difficulty in live streaming. Let us first start with it and see how it goes. We are just on a trial project. We are not ruling out anything and will improve with time. We cannot have everything together.”
Representing the Centre, K K Venugopal, Attorney General, had said that live streaming could be allowed on a trial basis in Chief Justice of India’s court for Constitutional cases.
Venugopal added that he submitted suggestions on guidelines for live streaming of proceedings.
Jaising had sought live streaming on matters of national interests in her petition.
On the same matter, the NGO had asked for making court proceedings public for “the public” and parties subject to required regulations.
The law student, giving another point to the same issue, filed a plea for live streaming so that law interns have more access to the courtroom.
