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HC fines litigant Rs 50,000 for recording court hearing

Team SoOLEGAL 30 Jul 2018 2:30pm

HC fines litigant Rs 50,000 for recording court hearing

While the Supreme Court debates on whether video recording of judicial proceedings can be allowed, a litigant landed in trouble while recording a court proceeding in the Delhi High Court.

The HC bench comprising of Justices Hima Kohli and Rekha Palli witnessed some drama when an alert court staffer spotted, and informed to the bench, about a man secretly recording the audio during a court hearing in a property dispute case.

The litigant’s phone was then seized on the order of the HC bench. When the phone was checked, the bench found out an 18 minute audio clip of the ongoing hearing.

The bench then noted in its order, “On reassembling, when we asked the respondent to explain his conduct, he admits that he has made an  audio recording of the court proceedings on his mobile phone and states that he had done so to derive ‘perverse pleasure’ against his brother, the appellant before us.”

However, the bench found the litigant’s explanation “unacceptable” and said no party has been given the permission to make audio or video recording of the judicial proceedings.

The HC bench, then imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the offender and directed him to deposit the money within two days with the ‘Delhi High Court Advocates Welfare Trust’.

The Court said that the litigant phone will be returned once the proof of deposit is shown to the Registrar General (RG).

 



Tagged: Video Recording of Court Proceeding   Delhi High Court Advocates Welfare Trust   Delhi HC   Supreme Court  
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