Obscene content played during virtual hearing disrupts Delhi HC proceedings

Chief Justice Upadhyaya said recordings of court proceedings were prohibited under the high court rules, and if any unauthorised content was circulating, the authorities would detect the same. Virtual proceedings in the chief justices court were disrupted thrice in the pre-lunch session when a participant under the name Shtjeet Sighn played an obscene video.

A hearing through videoconferencing in the Delhi High Court was disrupted on Wednesday after a participant played obscene content on the virtual platform. Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma mentioned the incident before a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhaya and Justice Tejas Karia, seeking action to stop the circulation and dissemination of the recordings of the incident. The chief justice said appropriate directions have been issued to the registrar general on the administrative side in the matter. Sharma said such episodes damage the sanctity and overall integrity of the court. ''There has been a disconcerting incident or incidents in the pre-lunch session, I gather, in some courts, not in one court,'' he said. Chief Justice Upadhyaya said recordings of court proceedings were prohibited under the high court rules, and if any unauthorised content was circulating, the authorities would detect the same. Virtual proceedings in the chief justice's court were disrupted thrice in the pre-lunch session when a participant under the name 'Sh*tjeet Sighn' played an obscene video. At the same time, an audio in the background announced that the meeting had been ''hacked''. ''Shut down the meeting right now. You've been hacked. Shut the meeting down. The meeting is not over,'' the audio said. The virtual meeting was shut down for some time after each incident.