SC Benches to sit one hour late from scheduled time, 44 staff test positive for COVID-19
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Supreme Court judges would maintain courtroom from their residences on Monday and the benches would sit one hour late from their schedule time within the morning as round 44 staffers have examined positive for coronavirus, sources stated.
On some media stories which steered that round 50% Supreme Court staff have examined positive for COVID-19, an apex courtroom official stated solely 44 staff received contaminated within the final one week.
There are round 3,000 staffers working within the apex courtroom.
While some judges had been coming to the apex courtroom premises to maintain courtroom, few others have been presiding over proceedings from their residences until now.
Amid the rise in COVID-19 circumstances, the apex courtroom has come out with two separate notifications.
One of them stated the benches, which used to assemble at 10.30 AM and 11 AM, would assemble one hour late from their schedule time on Monday.
All judges would hear circumstances by video conferencing from their residences and in the intervening time, total courtroom premises, together with courtrooms, are being sanitised.
The different notification suspended bodily mentioning of circumstances for pressing listening to by advocates from Monday until additional orders.
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