The clarification relates to the Court’s July 24 interim order, which barred the extraction, dissemination, monetisation, posting, reposting, uploading, transmitting, modification, storing and hosting of audio-video recordings of judicial proceedings on social media and other digital platforms without prior permission.
Such permission must now be obtained from the Secretary General of the Supreme Court or the Registrar General of the concerned High Court.
Even while issuing those interim directions, the Court had expressly stated that its order would not affect media reporting of court proceedings.
“It is clarified that this order shall have no bearing on the reporting of Court proceedings by recognized news outlets,” it had said.
