SC to live-stream Constitution bench hearings from Tuesday

The Supreme Court’s Constitution bench hearings will be live-streamed from Tuesday when it will hear a few important cases including Maharashtra political crisis.
The hearing of the Constitution bench can be proceedings can be watched on the Supreme Court’s own platform webcast.gov.in/scindia/ In a historic move, the Supreme Court decided last week to hold live-streaming of all the Constitution bench hearings from September 27.
Tomorrow, three Constitution benches will sit and hear the cases relating to pleas challenging the Centre’s decision to grant a 10 per cent quota for the EWS category in admissions and jobs, the Maharashtra political crisis, and control of administrative services in Delhi.
A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of India UU Lalit will hear pleas challenging the EWS quota case.
Justice DY Chandrachud-led bench will hear the petitions filed by both the Uddhav Thackeray-led camp and Eknath Shinde group on the issue of the Maharashtra political crisis.
While a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul will hear the plea of the Delhi government on the contentious issue of who should control administrative services in Delhi over the transfers and postings of officers in the national capital.
Today, CJI said that the Supreme Court will have its own platform to live-stream its proceedings and the use of YouTube is temporary.
“These are the initial stages. We will certainly have our own platforms… We will take care of that (copyright issue),” he said while a lawyer told the apex court that the copyright of the top court proceedings could not be surrendered to private platforms like YouTube.
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