TMC’s Gokhale seeks law to make judges’ oral observations public

Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale on Friday sought a law mandating the recording, transcription and public availability of accurate records, even oral observations by judges, of proceedings of all courts from the district-level to the Supreme Court.

Introducing a private members’ Bill — Records of Court Proceedings Bill, 2025 —in the Upper House during the second half of the day’s proceedings, Gokhale said it is aimed at bringing a law which would require the maintenance of “an accurate public record of proceedings of all courts in India which will be transcribed in writing”.

“…The government is a house of record. Everything gets documented in writing; even files have to have notations on them. Everything has to be recorded and is available under the RTI Act,” Gokhale tol