Soon every hearing in Supreme Court will be live streaming, preparations complete

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has taken a big step to make judicial hearings more transparent and accessible to the common citizens of the country. From now on, you will be able to watch live streaming of all court proceedings on the official website of the Supreme Court. Earlier, the Supreme Court used to live stream only the hearings of Constitution Bench and other cases of national importance on YouTube. Additionally, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing techniques are also used to prepare live transcriptions of important hearings. Recently, the Supreme Court hearing on NEET-UG case and RG Tax Medical College and Hospital case was watched online by a large number of people.

The Supreme Court, in its judgment in the Swapnil Tripathi case in 2018, had supported live streaming of proceedings in important cases. After this, so that citizens from every corner of the country get an opportunity to watch the proceedings of the apex court, the entire court decided to telecast the proceedings of the constitution benches live.

Last year CJI had given indications
In August last year, during the Constitution Bench hearing on ‘Article 370 of the Constitution’, Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Chandrachud had said that the apex court was setting up its own cloud software for video conferencing to enable virtual hearings in all lower courts across the country. he/she had said that in the third phase of eCourts (project), we have a bigger budget, so we are in the process of setting up our own cloud software for video conferencing. The Chief Justice had pointed out that during the pandemic, courts across India conducted 43 million hearings through virtual medium.

The blindfold removed from the eyes of the goddess of justice
In another initiative shedding colonial imprints and traditional features, the statue of Lady Justice in the Supreme Court judges’ library under CJI Chandrachud now holds a copy of the Indian Constitution instead of a sword, and her blindfold was removed Is. Traditionally, blindfolding suggested equality before the law, meaning that the delivery of justice should not be influenced by the status, wealth or power of the parties. The sword historically symbolized authority and the ability to punish injustice.

However, Lady Justice’s right hand retains the scales of justice, symbolizing social balance and the importance of carefully considering the facts and arguments of both sides before rendering a verdict.