Balurghat court starts hearing through video conference

BALURGHAT: District and Sessions Judge Court, Dakshin Dinajpur at Balurghat started hearing "in the event of the petitions involving extreme urgency" on Friday through video conferencing.

District and Sessions Judge Chandrani Mukherjee Banerjee, issued an order in this context on Thursday (April 16) since lawyers and litigants are at the moment unable to attend the court because of the nationwide lockdown.

Justice Chandrani Mukherjee Banerjee has issued elaborate instructions over filing of e-petitions. As per the order, the advocate-on-record is required to file a scanned copy of the petition along with documents and send it to the official e-mail ID of the District Judge. The Court has clarified that the petition must contain the case details, the bench details along with a paragraph giving consent to the hearing of the case in the video conferencing mode.

The Court has further clarified that several applications should not be incorporated in a single e-mail and the soft copies of the individual petition along with the connected documents in PDF format should accompany that e-mail as attachments. Petitions filed by link sharing of any cloud storage will not be admissible and such filing shall not be accepted.

Eminent lawyer of District and Sessions Judge Court Subhas Chaki said the Court had conducted 10 hearing on Friday through video conferencing mode. "Video conferencing can be done by lawyers sitting in their own chambers," he said.