Audio & Video Recording of Statement of Witness U/S 161, 162 Cr.PC is not Prohibited

PLD 2019 Supreme Court 196
In this Order, Supreme Court while dismissing a C.M filed by Hussain Nawaz Shareef to stop the JIT to record statement of witnesses through audio and video recording held that:
In the age of computer where almost everything is communicated and even business of every type is transacted online, emphasis on the form of doing a thing as it used to be done in 1898 would amount to putting at naught the dynamics of scientific and technological advancements which have not only liberated man from exhausting labour but also made the things easier. Law in many countries of the East and the West has been changed and even re-enacted. Addition of the word 'truly' in subsection (2) after the word 'answer' and insertion of the proviso to subsection (3) of Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 of India, providing for recording of such statement by audio-video electronic means is an illuminating example on the subject. Alright, audio or video recording cannot be admitted into evidence for the proof of such statement till the law is amended, as it has been amended in India and the other countries, but its use to facilitate recording of such statement cannot be discouraged on the basis of so pedantic an interpretation of Sections 161 and 162 of the Cr.P.C.