{"id":225810,"date":"2023-10-10T02:05:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=225810"},"modified":"2023-10-10T02:05:52","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T20:35:52","slug":"sc-asks-sics-to-provide-litigants-option-of-hybrid-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/10\/sc-asks-sics-to-provide-litigants-option-of-hybrid-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"SC asks SICs to provide litigants option of hybrid hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 9 Oct:<\/strong> The Supreme Court on Monday asked all state information commission (SIC) to provide litigants the option of hybrid mode of hearing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud directed SICs across the country to ensure that e-filing of complaints and appeals is provided to all litigants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;All state information commission must provide an option for availing of hybrid mode of hearing,&#8221; said the bench, also comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Observing that technology will help amplify access to justice, the bench said, &#8220;That apart, we also direct that all state information commissions must ensure that e-filing of complaints and appeals is provided in a streamlined manner to every litigant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The apex court passed the order while hearing a plea seeking directions for better functioning of SICs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The petition said that SICs should hear complaints as well as appeals by giving an option of both physical as well as virtual hearing through digital platforms. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 9 Oct: The Supreme Court on Monday asked all state information commission (SIC) to provide litigants the option of hybrid mode of hearing. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud directed SICs across the country to ensure that e-filing of complaints and appeals is provided to all litigants. &#8220;All state information commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-225810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}