Himalaya Harbinger, Rudrapur Bureau.
The Supreme Court on Friday sought a report from the Registrar General of the Karnataka High Court over social media clips about comments allegedly made by a judge during the course of hearing cases.
“The attention of the court has been drawn to media reports pertaining to certain comments which have been made by a judge of the Karnataka High Court, Justice Vedavyasachar Srishananda, during the contract of judicial proceedings. We have requested the learned Attorney General of India and the Solicitor General to assist this court,” a five-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrahud, Justice Sanjiv Khanna, B R Gavai, Surya Kant, and Hrishikesh Roy ordered.
At this stage, we request the registrar general of the High Court of Karnataka to submit a report to this court after seeking administrative directions of the Chief Justice… in regard to the subject matter which is being referred to,” added the bench.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the matter, CJI D Y Chandrahud said, “The reason why we have come in a combination of five judges is that our attention has been drawn to certain video clips about certain gratuitous remarks by a Karnataka High Court judge during the court of hearing. We will ask the Register General of the High Court to send us a report and perhaps with your assistance lay down some guidelines on observations in the course of hearings and draw the issues now that social media is now so prominent in observing proceedings in court, commenting on that”.
The bench directed, “This exercise may be carried out in the next two days and the report may be submitted to the secretary general of this court in the meantime”.
