
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed the special court for bomb blast cases at Poonamallee to make available the facilities of video-conference for the lawyers, the accused persons and the witnesses.
After lawyers, including C Vijayakumar, who is the president of the Bar Association of Special Court for Bomb Blast Cases in Poonamallee, highlighted about their ordeal at the special court, a division bench of Justices SM Subramaniam and M Jothiraman directed the provision of the video-conference facility from Thursday itself.
“The Registrar of the City Civil Courts informed us of the video-conference facility available in the special court. Such facility shall be utilised in full by the lawyers and the witnesses,” it said.