The Supreme Court on Monday directed the registrar
general of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to ensure proper video-conferencing
facilities at a Jammu special court hearing two cases against jailed JKLF chief
Yasin Malik and others.
A bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal
Bhuyan further directed the Delhi High Court registrar general to ensure proper
video-conferencing facilities in Tihar jail where Malik is lodged in a separate
terror financing case.
Both high court registrars were directed to file the
status reports on February 18 by the bench, which posted the hearing on the CBI
plea on February 21.
It referred to an April 2023 order of the top court
in a separate matter in which the court had directed all the states and appropriate
authorities to decide the pending mercy petitions at the earliest and without
any inordinate delay.