E- Hearings in Indian Courts: Issues and Perspectives

Abstract

For maintaining public faith and trust in the judicial system the courts must be open for public at the time of hearing. If we are talking about the on line hearing the concept of open court can be achieved by live streaming of the court proceedings. Due to outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic Indian judiciary continued the hearing only in urgent matters. Before the pandemic also Indian judiciary has started the use of ICT in the court proceedings with a view to fight against pendency of cases. It is the need of the hour we should use more and more ICT tools to keep pace with the time. But it is not ripe time to completely switch off to the online hearings. Thus, present research paper discussed worldwide trend to use of technological tools for the speedy trial with special reference to COVID-19.