Supreme Court’s New Streaming Rules Raise Questions on Transparency
On July 24, the Supreme Court placed the record of its own hearings behind a permission counter. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana issued an interim direction: live-streamed hearings shall not be extracted, modified, disseminated, reposted, uploaded, or monetised without prior permission. That permission must come from…
