Background

♤ Supreme Court (SC) approves live-streaming of court proceedings and directed the centre to frame rules for this.

♤ The SC agreed that live-streaming of court proceedings would serve as an instrument for greater accountability and formed part of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

♤ The SC held that the right to justice under Article 21 of the Constitution would be meaningful only if the public gets access to the proceedings and to witness proceedings live.