Covid-19 On The Rise: Madras High Court Issues Preventive Directions

Amid rising covid cases in the State, Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari of the Madras High Court has issued directions to be followed by Advocates and others while appearing in courts.

These preventive directions are as follows:

1. Advocates, parties appearing in person, Advocates' Clerks, Officers, and Staff members shall strictly adhere to the COVID-19 protocols, such as wearing face masks, washing hands frequently, sanitizing, and maintaining social distance inside the High Court campus.

2. Entry of Litigants is restricted inside the High Court campus unless their presence is specifically required by the courts concerned in relation to the court proceedings.

3. All the entrants shall sanitize their hands and undergo thermal scanning for temperature before frisking.

4. Gathering in the corridors or any other place within the High Court campus, shall be avoided.

The directions shall come into force with effect from 20.06.20222

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