{"id":1039752,"date":"2026-09-30T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039752"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:00:11","slug":"delhi-high-court-slaps-rs-1-lakh-cost-over-virtual-court-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/delhi-high-court-slaps-rs-1-lakh-cost-over-virtual-court-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi High Court slaps Rs 1 lakh cost over virtual court appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a lawyer for appearing virtually before it from a moving car, holding that the lawyer\u2019s conduct was in violation of the rules. Justice Om Prakash Shukla said while the convenience offered by virtual hearings was appreciated, it could not be at the cost of the court\u2019s decorum or causing disturbance in the conduct of judicial proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen this court has to deal with more than 70 matters in a day, background noise and movement during the hearing are disruptive for this court to proceed,\u201d said the judge in the order passed on September 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on a lawyer for appearing virtually before it from a moving car, holding that the lawyer\u2019s conduct was in violation of the rules. Justice Om Prakash Shukla said while the convenience offered by virtual hearings was appreciated, it could not be at the cost of the court\u2019s decorum or causing disturbance in the conduct of judicial proceedings. \u201cWhen this court has to deal with more than 70 matters in a day, background noise and movement during the hearing are disruptive for this court to proceed,\u201d said the judge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039771,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039752\/revisions\/1039771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}