The Supreme Court of India has decided to launch an exclusive platform to livestream court proceedings, which will address privacy and data security concerns that arise with streaming judicial hearings on a public platform.
The Supreme Court's e-Committee is developing a plan to build a dedicated platform for live-streaming court proceedings.
This is the third phase of the ongoing e-courts project, which is an ambitious effort to integrate information and technology into India's judiciary.
Six high courts in India - Gujarat, Orissa, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Patna, and Madhya Pradesh — currently have their own YouTube channels where they live stream their sessions. The Supreme Court's e-model Committee's rules, a series of orders aimed at controlling live streaming of court proceedings in India, are used to livestream these hearings.
In June 2021, the guidelines were distributed to stakeholders for feedback, including high courts and the NITI Aayog, India's premier public ...