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HC should hold courts during pandemic : Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court has laid stress on the need for high court judges to hold courts during the pandemic to consider important cases so that people in distress are not deprived of their fundamental rights. A bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian made this observation on Tuesday while hearing an appeal filed by a Punjab resident who claimed he was denied a hearing by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on his bail application. Chunni Lal Gaba, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate, claimed that the high court had declined the request for hearing his bail application that had been pending