JODHPUR, April 13 -- The Rajasthan high court has allowed a couple seeking divorce by mutual consent to tender evidence via video conferencing (VC) from their respective places of residence in United States and Ireland, setting aside a family court order that had insisted on their appearance through an Indian consulate. A bench of justices Arun Monga and Sunil Beniwal observed on Friday that hyper-technical procedural requirements cannot be allowed to defeat the cause of justice. "A collective reading of the Rules reveals there is no bar on a Court exercising its discretion in the absence of a coordinator to allow the witness/litigant to appear through Video Conferencing from a place other than the designated remote point, provided, of course, the circumstances warrant exercising such discretion. The case in hand pertains to a situation where one party is residing in Ireland and other in the USA, i.e., in different time zones," it said. The bench thus directed the family court to allow appearance via VC....