The live streaming of court proceedings for the state’s entire chief district judges was piloted out by the Gujarat High Court on Wednesday.
Inaugurating the project virtually, Supreme Court Justice MR Shah noted that with the pilot live-streaming of district courts, “no one can now bluff” and claim that their matter was not called out.
Apex court judge Justice JB Pardiwala also inaugurated the launch of the judicial officers’ portal developed in-house in Gujarat HC, which is aimed at judicial administration by the Gujarat HC, relating to the service and career of judicial officers.
The portal has functionalities of making all communications paperless that is done between judicial officers and the Registry of the Gujarat HC relating to the leave applications of judicial officers, annual confidential reports, property intimation of purchase and sale.
The portal also has a secure mechanism for judicial officers to submit their self-appraisal online.
Gujarat HC Chief Justice Aravind Kumar said that the court has been a “pioneer in the implementation of the mandate of the judgement of the Supreme Court in Swapnil Tripathi’s case which paved the way for such transparency measures in the justice delivery system.”
Noting that live-streaming is not only a move towards transparency but also aids various court functionaries such as the administrative side as well as those as stenographers, CJ Kumar added that Gujarat HC’s YouTube channel has 1.18 lakh subscribers and videos streamed on the channel has garnered more than 1.72 crore views so far.