Opinion | Camera Is The Lifeline Of Justice

Initially, judges of the Supreme Court and high courts were hesitant to let the camera inside their courtrooms

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Last week, the Delhi High Court suspended a district judge, Mohinder Virat, and ordered him not to leave town without permission.

The high court is contemplating disciplinary proceedings against the judge holding the high judicial office. The cause of action was an incident at a public place where the judge did something that he should not have done – CCTV footage of that incident might be available, which would be the decisive factor.

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Mid-September in 2014 saw a full-court meeting of the Allahabad HC sack 11 trainee judicial officers, based on CCTV footage. In the video, it was clear that the judges-to-be had got into a drunken brawl at a restaurant in Lucknow, just the day before their training was to end. It was their form of celebration.

An attempt was made to hush up the misdemeanour of the judges-to-be by their seniors in the Judicial Training Research Institute, Lucknow. Those who made the cover-up bid were transferred out of the institute by the full court meeting chaired........

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