Calcutta High Court’s Aniruddha Bose J. allows Deepak Khosla to video record proceedings

In what could be the first of its kind, a single judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court has allowed advocate Deepak Khosla to video record the proceedings in a case pending before it..The judge, Justice Aniruddha Bose, has passed the order allowing Khosla to record the proceedings while making it clear that the proceedings being recorded shall not form part of the official records of this Court. The relevant portion of the order reads as follows:.“As regards prayer of Mr. Khosla for video recording of the proceeding, I have permitted such recording as there was no objection from the learned Advocates appearing for the different parties. But I make it clear that the proceedings being recorded today shall not form part of the official records of this Court as there is no Rule of the Court as yet framed permitting video recording of the proceedings before the Court. The recordings would be for the purpose of assistance of this Court, like noting of submissions of the parties in course of hearing and such recording shall not be made available to any of the parties or outsiders unless otherwise directed by this Court, and this Court shall have the power and authority to make necessary editing of the recorded version, removing any part therefrom which this Court considers it necessary to avoid any scandalous or undesirable or irrelevant matter to remain on record.”.In February 2014, Khosla had made audio recording of proceedings before the Company Law Board though he was eventually forced to stop..The judiciary seems very reluctant to record the court proceedings with the Supreme Court e-committee rejecting a proposal by the government to record the proceedings in lower courts..Read the full order of the Calcutta High Court below.