Civil Procedure | Elderly Witness Allowed to Depose via Video Conferencing in Will Dispute: Punjab & Haryana High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that an elderly witness in a long-pending inheritance dispute can record her testimony through video conferencing, emphasizing that courts should make full use of modern technology to ensure access to justice and avoid unnecessary hardship to witnesses. The judgment was delivered by Justice Virinder Aggarwal while deciding a revision petition filed by Ashwani Kumar Sharma challenging an order passed by a Chandigarh…