Phenomenon of ‘e-courts’ is set to become a reality, paving way for a paperless judicial system.Kalam will hand over laptops to judicial officers in Delhi.
CJ to hand over laptops to 29 district judges and 3 judges from subordinate courts today
The phenomenon of ‘e-courts’ is set to become a reality, paving way for a paperless judicial system. To mark the beginning of the programme, envisaged in 2005 by a Supreme Court-appointed e-committee, President APJ Abdul Kalam will hand over laptop computers to judicial officers representing North, South, East and West zones in Delhi on Monday evening.
Rekha Sondur-Baldota, Registrar-General of Bombay High Court, will represent West Zone. Simultaneously, high courts across the country will hand over laptops to judges of subordinate courts in their respective states. Doordarshan will beam the event live on Monday evening.
Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar of Bombay High Court will hand over laptops to 29 district judges in Maharashtra and three judges from subordinate courts in the city in the central court room of HC precincts. About 200 people are expected to attend the programme.
The idea of ‘e-courts’, first conceptualised by Retired Chief Justice of India RC Lahoti, is aimed at ridding the judicial system of the tedious paper work right up to the Magistrate level. “The full implementation of the programme will take at least five years, but this will mark its beginning”, said Hemant Sampat, Registrar (Legal) of Bombay HC.
He said that the ultimate goal was to have courts where petitions would be typed, e-mailed and filed online and judges would read them on their laptops. “Tenders were issued in February and 15,000 laptop computers have been bought at Rs 35,000 each”, Sampat said.
Along with the reduced paper work, the inter-connected systems will enable the SC to monitor courts right up to district and magistrate levels. Experts from the National Informatics Centre and other technical experts will train judges and court staff. A training programme of 60 days will be arranged at all district headquarters and every judicial officer will have to attend it.
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