India
oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
Chennai, Apr 15: Amid a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in Tamil Nadu, especially here, hearing of cases in the Madras High Court would be through video-conferencing only until further orders, its Registrar-General announced on Thursday.
“Even though the situation in Tamil Nadu may be better than other places in the country, so as to ensure that immediate preventive measures are taken to arrest the further spread of the pandemic, the state government has requested the High Court of Madras to take appropriate immediate measures so that the footfall in the court buildings is reduced considerably,” a release from the office of the Registrar General said.
The decision follows an observation from the Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee that the second wave of the virus was spreading…