Supreme Court to live-stream constitution bench hearings from Tuesday

The Supreme Courts constitution bench hearings will be livestreamed from Tuesday when it will hear a few important cases including Maharashtra political crisisThe hearing of the constitution bench proceedings can be watched on the Supreme Courts own platform webcastgovinscindiaIn a historic move the Supreme Court decided last week to hold livestreaming of all the constitution bench hearings from September 27Tomorrow three Constitution benches will sit and hear the cases relating to pleas challenging the Centres decision to grant a 10 per cent quota for the EWS category in admissions and jobs the Maharashtra political crisis and control of administrative services in DelhiA fivejudge bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit will hear pleas challenging the EWS quota caseJustice DY Chandrachudled bench will hear the petitions filed by both the Uddhav Thackerayled camp and Eknath Shinde group on the issue of the Maharashtra political crisisAlso Read SC directs Bombay HC to hear and decide bail plea of Anil Deshmukh expeditiouslyWhile a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul will hear the plea of the Delhi government on the contentious issue of who should control administrative services in Delhi over the transfers and postings of officers in the national capitalToday CJI said that the Supreme Court will have its own platform to livestream its proceedings and the use of YouTube is temporaryThese are the initial stages We will certainly have our own platforms We will take care of that copyright issue he said while a lawyer told the apex court that the copyright of the top court proceedings could not be surrendered to private platforms like YouTubeLast week a full court comprising all the judges of the Supreme Court met and took the decision on the live streaming sources saidCurrently the Constitution bench of the Supreme Court has been hearing a number of cases including economically backward class reservation law the religious practice of excommunication in the Dawoodi Bohra community Centres petition on additional compensation for victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy among othersThe cases that the fivejudge Constitution bench will hear in near future include challenges to the Citizenship Amendment Act CAA abrogation of Article 370 Maharashtra political crisis etcSenior advocate Indira Jaising had also written to the CJI and other judges requesting the Supreme Court to begin live streaming of proceedings of matters of public and constitutional importanceIn 2018 the then CJI Dipak Misraled threejudge bench had agreed to start a live telecast of proceedings in a phased mannerFor the first time the Supreme Court in August livestreamed its proceedings through a government webcast portal of a ceremonial bench while giving farewell to outgoing Chief Justice of India NV RamanaThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever