The Delhi High Court has barred a woman lawyer from appearing before it through video conferencing, noting that she switched off her camera and muted herself citing parallel ongoing hearing which is against the VC Rules.

Justice Tejas Karia passed the order and barred the lawyer from appearing before his court through VC henceforth.

“….learned Counsel for Defendant Nos. 1 and 2, initially appeared through Video Conference and when a query was put up by this Court, her video was switched off and she was on mute. After some time, she again appeared through the Video Conference and submitted that a parallel hearing was going on so she had put this Court on mute and the video was also switched off. This conduct of the learned Counsel is contrary to the Electronic Evidence and Video Conferen

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