The High Court on June 1 while ruling out the feasibility of physical court hearing despite several pleas from advocate bodies, expanded it to video conference hearing of all cases by all the 33 judges in their respective assigned jurisdiction. The High Court registry, when contacted, while refusing to deny the aspect that certain judges have tested positive insisted that all details pertaining to the change would be put on the website soon.
But informed sources confirmed that the judges testing positive was not owing to the spread emanating from within the high court but through their personal staff like drivers while another judge had got it from a wedding, he attended. In the instance wherein a cook employed in a judge’s place had tested positive, the judge had reportedly tested negative.
However, a few other judges who had come in contact with the judges who had tested positive have been subjected to Coronavirus test while a couple of judges whose drivers had tested positive have home quarantined themselves. Sources also indicate that since the judges who tested positive were asymptomatic, they have also been home quarantined.