A notice issued by a Pune district court on October 20 asking women advocates not to “arrange” hair in the open court led to a social media uproar. The notice said that women arranging their hair disturbs the court
Senior Advocate Rajiv Nayar has written to Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice D.N. Patel raising concern over the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 and requested the court to revert to virtual hearing mode once again.
Chief Justice Ramana observed that the Advocates have different opinion on the issue of continuation of virtual court hearing of the cases and that the lawyers have expressed different point of view regarding the decision of the courts to revert to the physical hearing of the cases.
Chief Justice of India S.A. Bobde has said that the process to resume physical hearings has begun and will, for the time-being, be reintroduced via hybrid hearings.