Courts should avoid uploading scanned copies of judgments: SC

State Bank of India Vs Ajay Kumar Sood (Supreme Court of India) SC held that On the note of accessibility, the importance of making judgments accessible to persons from all sections of society, especially persons with disability needs emphasis. All judicial institutions must ensure that the judgments and orders being published by them do not carry improperly placed watermarks as they end up making the documents inaccessible for persons with visual disability who use screen readers to access them. On the same note, courts and tribunals must also ensure that the version of the judgments and orde...