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Coronavirus Attack Reminds India’s Judiciary Of Technology Gaps

The challenges of e-filing, digitisation and live streaming at India’s courts, brought home by the Covid-19 attack.

Birds fly over the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
Birds fly over the Supreme Court in New Delhi, India. (Photographer: T. Narayan/Bloomberg)
On an ordinary day, India’s apex court functions with 17 benches of two or more judges each, and hears between 50 and 70 cases. In the past month barely two benches have sat, remotely, hearing cases on video conference - each disposing only urgent matters. Maybe 10-15 cases have been heard each day.For a court facing a backlog of over sixty thousand cases, social or physical distancing in the times of coronavirus is yet another remin...
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