AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court is likely to resume in-person hearings by opening the courtrooms on its Sola campus from August 17, sources said.
While there is no formal announcement yet from the HC administration, judges were heard telling a lawyer that they will hear his case in the chamber when the in-person hearings restart from August 17. When the lawyer said he was pleased to hear about the reopening of courtrooms, one of the judges told him not to pretend he did not know anything about the schedule for the resumption of in-person hearings.
On Saturday morning, members of the Gujarat High Court Advocates Association (GHAA) had staged a dharna outside the HC campus demanding the reopening of courtrooms. The lawyers said that the number of Covid-19 cases has gone down drastically and the state administration has allowed offices and markets to open.
The lawyers have been pressuring the court administration to reopen courtrooms ever since the HC shut itself and switched over to the virtual mode of hearings since the lockdown last year.
The subordinate judiciary has been functioning normally since June.
