Gauhati High Court Kohima Bench Commences Live Streaming Of Court Proceedings On YouTube

The streaming will be governed by the Gauhati High Court (Live Streaming and Recording of Court Proceedings) Rules, 2022. The live-streaming of the proceedings can be viewed here.

Notably, the Gujarat High Court was the first High Court to live-stream its proceedings last year. It was followed by several High Courts across the nation, i.e., Gauhati (Principal Bench), Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and Patna.

The Telangana High Court had also decided to start live-streaming of its proceedings on a test-basis from 10^th October. Last month, the Meghalaya High Court has also started streaming its proceedings live on YouTube.

The initiatives to live stream Court hearings were taken pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court in Swapnil Tripathi v. Supreme Court of India (2018). Therein, stressing on transparency of Court proceedings, the Apex Court had famously held, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant".

The Supreme Court has also started live-streaming the proceedings of the Constitution Benches from September this year. The Court was streamed for the first time on YouTube when Justice N.V. Ramana, the former CJI graced a ceremonial Bench on the eve of his retirement in August 2022.