New Delhi: The second wave of coronavirus in the country is becoming unbridled. Almost every day Corona records are being filed. Corona’s havoc is also seen in the country’s top court. Nearly 50 percent of Supreme Court employees have been infected with coronavirus. In view of this, all the judges of the top court will hear from their home through video conferencing. Simultaneously, the work of sanitizing the court is going on. Meanwhile, Supreme Court Judge Justice DY Chandrachud said that due to Corona epidemic, judicial functioning in the apex court will not be affected.
According to the information, after the case of infection, the entire court premises including the court room is being sanitized, so on Monday all the benches will sit one hour late than the scheduled time.
Meanwhile, the officials of the Supreme Court said that the situation is not worrisome. He said that tests of 90 employees were done, out of which about 44 employees were found positive on Saturday. This has created panic among the judges.
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At the same time, Justice DY Chandrachud said that due to the epidemic, judicial functioning in the Supreme Court will not be affected. There are 1600 links for video conferencing in the Supreme Court. The court has resources for judicial functioning. There will be no hindrance in judicial functioning. 16 benches are hearing. He said that now all the files are in electronic form. There is no need to move files around.
Let me tell you that the second wave of Corona in India is taking a gigantic form. According to the data released on Monday, 1,68,912 new coronavirus cases have been registered across the country in the last 24, which is the highest ever number of cases recorded in a single day.
