AConstitution Bench of the Supreme Court will go "completely paperless" for the first time when it adjudicates the contentious issue of the scope of powers of the Centre and the Delhi Government over control of services, Justice DY Chandrachud said on Wednesday.
The top court said the five-judge Constitution Bench will on September 27 fix the timeline for hearing and told the senior lawyers representing the parties that no bulky case files will be allowed in the courtroom.
Justice Chandrachud said it will be a "green bench" and no papers will be used or relied upon during the proceedings. "Everybody will have a common scanned copy. It will make life easy for all of us," he said. The bench, also comprising Justices M R Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha, said it would tentatively start hearing the matter concerning the scope of legislative and executive powers of the Centre and the Delhi government by mid-October