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No fully virtual courts but wherever possible lawyers can appear online: CJI

Supreme Court

New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna on Tuesday declined the request of some senior lawyers asking for complete virtual functioning of courts and emphasized the importance of hybrid hearings in courts, allowing lawyers to appear online while also maintaining physical court proceedings.

CJI told lawyers that judges are being told to conduct virtual hearings wherever possible and lawyers can choose to appear virtually during the hearing.

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