The Supreme Court, which faced "unprecedented" challenge of COVID-19 pandemic crippling its physical hearings, set up 1,021 benches in last 100 days to deal with over 15,000 matters argued or represented by 50,475 advocates through video conferencing mode, an official statement said.

The top court, which has been hearing matters through video conferencing since March 23, two days before the national lockdown was imposed to restrict the spread of coronavirus, has finally decided as many as 4,300 cases, it said.