HC lifts curbs on trial courts in T.N., Puducherry
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The Madras High Court has determined to withdraw from February 8 all restrictions and limitations imposed by it on the functioning of trial courts throughout the State and the Union Territory of Puducherry to comprise the unfold of COVID-19.
In an official memorandum issued on Monday, Registrar General C. Kumarappan stated the Administrative Committee of the High Court had taken the choice after reviewing the prevailing scenario of COVID-19 in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. “It is open to the Principal District Judges to decide on the mode and manner of functioning depending on the situation prevailing in their respective district or even in a particular taluk,” the memorandum, circulated to all judicial officers, learn.
Annexing an SOP to the memorandum, the R-G stated all PDJs in the State and the Chief Judge of Puducherry ought to guarantee higher functioning of subordinate courts with out compromising the COVID-19 protocol.
With regard to permission for reopening of canteens, attorneys’ chambers and Bar affiliation rooms had been involved, the High Court clarified that it could be thought of solely after three weeks from graduation of bodily listening to in full capability.
The SOP said that these with out masks can be denied entry into court docket campuses and that overcrowding was strictly prohibited. Washing fingers with liquid cleaning soap on the entry factors and present process thermal screening had additionally been made necessary.
