On Wednesday, CJI N V Ramana hinted during a hearing that physical hearing may start after a week or ten days.
"The physical hearing in the court may start in a week or ten days & the technical glitches in virtual hearing would soon become a thing of past," the CJI said, during a hearing, when Senior SC Lawyer & EX-Attorney General (AG) of India, Mukul Rohatgi was appearing in a case before him.
The Supreme Court made this observation while it was hearing a case involving the Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF) against the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) & a number of lawyers, on various occasions, had said that after the second wave was over & as the pandemic is restricted & controlled, that's why it was of the opinion & had written letters to the CJI Ramana, advocating for initiation of physical hearings.
Many lawyers also had written letters to the CJI pleading to start physical hearings before the Supreme Court, citing that their financial & economic conditions worsened due to the absence of the physician hearings before the Supreme Court.
The Top Court had been functioning in virtual mode since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the Supreme Court switched to hybrid functioning (with options of virtual and physical hearings) during March this year, soon it started to complete virtual hearing after the second wave hit the country.
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