The Telangana High Court has extended the ongoing suspension of judicial and administrative work in all its subordinate courts and tribunals till September 5.
The Telangana High Court on Saturday extended the ongoing suspension of judicial and administrative work in all its subordinate courts and tribunals, and in the Telangana State Legal Services Authority, the Mediation And Arbitration Centre, the High Court Legal Services Committee and the Telangana State Judicial Academy till September 5.
The court took the decision after taking into consideration the steep rise in the total number of coronavirus cases in the state, and the health and the safety of the stakeholders.
The Registrar General of the High Court in an official notification however said that the units of the heads of the district were at liberty to open the courts physically wherever there was a possibility after consulting the administrative judges of their respective districts and after taking into confidence the members of the bar associations, the judicial officers and the employees, by following the guidelines mentioned in the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the High Court on June 8.
He said that the cases which were listed upto August 5, 2020, would be automatically adjourned en-block to a working day after one month.
The High Court asked the judicial officers of the districts to take up the hearings of the cases ripen for disposal, and in addition to hear urgent civil and criminal matters, and family court matters such as petitions for visiting rights and grant of maintenance, through video conference during the suspension period.
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