The Bombay High Court has ‘in principle’ decided to cancel its upcoming month long summer vacation if the current lockdown is extended beyond May 3.
The official Notification is yet to be released but Registrar General announced that the Summer Vacation from May 7 to June 7 will be cancelled and the court will be functioning from 10:30 onwards instead of 11:00 am.
Chief Justice BP Dharmadhikari, through the High Court registry, has been issuing directions from time to time regarding functioning and working hours of the Principal seat of High Court, its bench in Nagpur and Aurangabad and the High Court of Bombay at Goa.
Only extremely urgent matters were heard by the High Court via video conferencing adhering to social distancing norms. If the lockdown is extended beyond May 3, then the high court will function as per the present arrangement where special benches constituted by the Chief Justice hear extremely urgent matters twice a week via video-conferencing.
