ORDER :

SONIA GOKANI, J.

1. The present petition is preferred under Article 226 of the Constitution of India filed by the petitioner in the public interest seeking directions against the respondents for streamlining the process of virtual hearing and restraining personal/physical hearing before the respondents considering the recent pandemic of COVID-19.

The petitioner is an advocate enrolled on the roll of the Bar Council of Gujarat and practicing in various Courts. He has been member of various committees of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of India (ICAI) and is also an RTI activist and has given the details of various PILs, he has preferred before this Court.

2. According to the petitioner, due to severe outbreak of COVID 19 virus, which led to pandemic, the High Court had issued circular on 22.03.2021 issuing guidelines for virtual functioning of the Courts. According to him, latest records of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation dated 29.03.2021 are indicating possibility of spread of infection of COVID-19 to its maximum level and there is a continuous rise in the number of patients. It has also led the State Government imposing the night curfew in the metropolitan towns. The