2023 Supreme(SC) 1049
D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, J. B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA
Sarvesh Mathur – Appellant
Versus
Registrar General High Court of Punjab and Haryana – Respondent
Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s) Petitioner-in-person
For the Respondent(s): Mr. K M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Arvind Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. K.M Nataraj, A.S.G. Mr. Sharath Nambiar, Adv. Mr. Chitransh Sharma, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Anand, Adv. Mr. Amrish Kumar, AOR Mr. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abhimanyu Tewari, AOR Ms. Eliza Bar, Adv. Mr. Tushar Bathija, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Saroha, Adv. Mr. Sidhant Awasthy, Adv. Mr. Praveer Singh, Adv. Mr. Parth Jain, Adv. Mr. Kunal Chatterji, AOR Ms. Maitrayee Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohit Bansal, Adv. Ms. Kshitij Singh, Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Nikhil Goel, AOR Mr. P. I. Jose, AOR Mr. James P. Thomas, Adv. Mr. Ravi Sagar, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR Mr. Gautam Narayan, AOR Ms. Asmita Singh, Adv. Mr. Harshit Goel, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Singh, Adv. Mr. Sahil Tagotra, AOR Mr. Shibashish Misra, AOR Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Guru Krishna Kumar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Deepayan Mandal, AOR Mr. Naman Varma, Adv. Mr. Mridul Bansal, Adv. Mr. K. Parameshwar, AOR Ms. Arti Gupta, Adv. Ms. Kanti, Adv. Mr. Chinmay Kalgaonkar, Adv. Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Ms. Swathi H.prasad, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, AOR Mr. P.D. Gupta, Adv. Ms. Sujaya Bardhan, Adv. Mr. Mukul Kumar, AOR Mr. Sandeep Sudhakar Deshmukh, AOR Mr. Nishant Sharma, Adv. Mr. Tushar D. Bhelkar, Adv. Mr. Akshay Subhash Jagtap, Adv. Mr. Swapnil Anil Walde, Adv. Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Mr. Arvind Kumar Tripathi, Adv. Mrs. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Mr. Apoorv Kurup, AOR Mr. Shivansh Dwivedi, Adv. Ms. Kirti Dadheech, Adv. Ms. Aparna Arun, Adv. Ms. Gauri Goburdhun, Adv. Mr. Akhil Hasija, Adv. Mr. Himanshu Shekhar, AOR Mr. Parth Shekhar, Adv. Ms. Ambali Vedasen, Adv. Mr. Shubham Singh, Adv. Ms. Enakshi Mukhopadhyay Siddhanta, AOR Mr. Sovon Siddhanta, Adv. Mr. S. Silambarasan, Adv. Ms. Uttara Babbar, AOR Mr. Raghavendra S. Srivatsa, AOR Mr. Venkita Subramoniam T.r, Adv. Mr. Likhi Chand Bonsle, Adv. Ms. Komal Mundhra, Adv. Ms. Anagha N. Sharma, Adv. Mr. Hari Vishnu Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Aakash Nandolia, Adv. Ms. Sagun Srivastava, Adv. Ms. Shreya Bansal, Adv. Mr. Aniket Singh, Adv. Mr. Virender Ganda, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vipul Ganda, Adv. Mr. Vishal Ganda, Adv. Mr. S.K. Giri, Adv. Mr. Satyajit A. Desai, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Gautam, Adv. Ms. Akanksha Mathur, Adv. Ms. Nirti Dua, Adv. Mr. Anandeb Mitra, Adv. Ms. Anagha S. Desai, AOR
ORDER :
1. On the last date of hearing, i.e. 15 September 2023, notice was issued to the Registrars General of all the High Courts, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal 1 [“NCLAT”] the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission2 [“NCDRC”] and the National Green Tribunal.3 [“NGT”] They were directed to file an affidavit detailing (i) how many video conferencing hearings have taken place in the last three months and (ii) whether any courts are declining to permit video conferencing hearings. Further, the Solicitor General was requested to assist the court with data on hybrid hearings in the tribunals under various ministries of the Union Government on the next date of hearing.
2. Pursuant to the order dated 15 September 2023, the following High Courts have filed their affidavits:
(i) High Court of Judicature at Allahabad.
(ii) High Court of Judicature at Bombay.
(iii) High Court at Calcutta.
(iv) High Court of Chhattisgarh.
(v) Gauhati High Court.
(vi) High Court of Gujarat.
(vii) High Court of Himachal Pradesh.
(viii) High Court of Jharkhand.
(ix) High Court of Karnataka.
(x) High Court of Kerala.
(xi) High Court of Madhya Pradesh.
(xii) High Court of Judicature at Madras.
(xiii) Hig
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