Overview
- A November 10 notification states that hearings will be live-streamed only with the consent of the judge or bench hearing the matter.
- Under Rule 7.3 of the 2025 live-streaming rules, the presiding judge is designated to decide requests for copies of recordings.
- Access to recordings may be granted only upon an application filed in the form prescribed under Schedule III.
- Rule 7.4 provides that recordings will be stored or preserved only if the concerned court specifically orders it, including the period of retention.
- The clarification follows a limited rollout that began in July from select benches and coincided with reports of the CJI flagging a morphed video circulating on social media.