In a very interesting development, Justice Madan Lokur has been reinstated as judge-in-charge of E-committee of the Supreme Court..The same was confirmed by highly placed sources and also reflects on the website of the Supreme Court of India..This major development comes after Justice JS Khehar took over as Chief Justice of India from Justice TS Thakur..Justice Madan Lokur had been the judge-in charge of the e-Committee since July 2012, when Justice SH Kapadia was the Chief Justice of India. On November 9 last year, he was controversially dropped from the E-committee by then Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur. Lokur J. was replaced by former Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Sunil Ambwani J..As reported by Times of India, Justice Lokur had then expressed his disappointment at the decision saying,.“I had worked very hard for the last four years and the e-Committee has completed 97 per cent of the work contemplated. We were on the brink of putting in place a National Judicial Data Grid for high courts. But I have been moved out by the CJI, who is the patron-in-chief of the e-Committee..…I was not even informed about it by the CJI. A notification has been issued appointing Justice Ambwani as chairman of the e-Committee. It is the sole prerogative of the CJI as patron-in-chief to decide who should head the e-Committee. But courtesy demanded that a person who worked hard for the last four years be informed before being moved out.”.The e-Committee has been working towards computerisation of judicial records in courts across the country since its inception in 2004. One of the more prominent developments under Justice Lokur’s stewardship was the launch of the National Judicial Data Grid in September 2015, to track pendency of cases in the lower judiciary.
In a very interesting development, Justice Madan Lokur has been reinstated as judge-in-charge of E-committee of the Supreme Court..The same was confirmed by highly placed sources and also reflects on the website of the Supreme Court of India..This major development comes after Justice JS Khehar took over as Chief Justice of India from Justice TS Thakur..Justice Madan Lokur had been the judge-in charge of the e-Committee since July 2012, when Justice SH Kapadia was the Chief Justice of India. On November 9 last year, he was controversially dropped from the E-committee by then Chief Justice of India, TS Thakur. Lokur J. was replaced by former Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice Sunil Ambwani J..As reported by Times of India, Justice Lokur had then expressed his disappointment at the decision saying,.“I had worked very hard for the last four years and the e-Committee has completed 97 per cent of the work contemplated. We were on the brink of putting in place a National Judicial Data Grid for high courts. But I have been moved out by the CJI, who is the patron-in-chief of the e-Committee..…I was not even informed about it by the CJI. A notification has been issued appointing Justice Ambwani as chairman of the e-Committee. It is the sole prerogative of the CJI as patron-in-chief to decide who should head the e-Committee. But courtesy demanded that a person who worked hard for the last four years be informed before being moved out.”.The e-Committee has been working towards computerisation of judicial records in courts across the country since its inception in 2004. One of the more prominent developments under Justice Lokur’s stewardship was the launch of the National Judicial Data Grid in September 2015, to track pendency of cases in the lower judiciary.
