The proposed e-courts of Delhi High Court will start functioning from December. These e-courts, along with reducing the paperwork, are environment friendly also.
"The necessity of e-courts has arisen due to shortcomings of a paper-based system like storage, maintenance and wastage of a lot of paper," said Justice B.D.Ahmed, who is responsible for the e-court committee, while presenting the project to the judges and lawyers on Thursday.
Underlining the requirement for cases to be resolved at the earliest, he said that e-courts will help courts function in a more organized way and will provide aces to any case file for anyone from anywhere across the globe.
"We are also working on the project in which live court proceedings would also be seen on the website," Justice Ahmed said, adding that “the project will be first started in one court and will soon be started in all other courts, including the five district courts in the capital”.
He said that this will make the jobs of lawyers and litigants easier as they need to carry a CD or USB of their case.
"Recording of evidence in any case will be done electronically. We are planning to have centres all across the capital from where the person can record his statement and the court can see it via video-conferencing. This will help us in saving a lot of time not only of litigants but also of the court," said Justice S. Muralidhar, another member of the e-court committee.
He also mentioned that e-courts will help in decreasing the number of adjournments.
With the help of e-courts, warrants, court notices and other documents can be sent via e-mail to the party or the post office concerned from where a service slip will be sent back confirming the receipt.
"We will also ensure that courts shall provide adequate facility to the lawyers while they argue their case using the laptops. Judges will also be given a touch screen handbook which will be like their computer screen and they can read it like a file," Justice Ahmed said.
"We are also planning to introduce a system where court fees can be paid online so that entire work is done at a click of mouse," Justice Ahmed said, while mentioning that these courts will provide the litigants with more transpacrency, accountability and accessibility.
Source : India-Server.Com
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