Selvam granted the permission while allowing a criminal revision petition preferred by Premkumar Thangadurai and his wife Hanna Vanitha Kumari Joseph. Stating that they would have to travel abroad frequently, the petitioners said such restrictions would cause severe hardship to them. Setting a trendThis is the second such instance of the High Court coming forward to adapt to technological advancements. Justice V. Ramasubramanian, the then administrative judge of the Madurai Bench and now a judge of the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad, had requested Justice S. Vaidyanathan to hear an urgent matrimonial case filed in the Madurai Bench from the latter’s residence in Chennai through Skype. Then, the order dictated by the judge here was e-mailed to Madurai and a certified copy was issued over there on the same day.

Source: The Hindu January 20, 2018 18:11 UTC