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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday (July 24) banned the posting or uploading of audio-video recordings of court proceedings on digital platforms including social media without the prior permission of the concerned court.

A bench comprising of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana passed an interim order that “there shall be no extraction, modification, dissemination, posting, re-posting, uploading or monetisation of audio/video recordings of the judicial proceedings on social media or other digital platforms without the prior permission of the Registrar General of the concerned High Courts or the Secretary General of the Supreme Court,” Live Law reported.

The Supreme Court, however, mentioned that the order doesn’t cover news reporting on........

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