The Delhi High Court has recently agreed to hear a PIL seeking directions for proper management of official websites of district courts in the capital..Advocate Amit Sahni filed the PIL to ensure that information regarding daily orders, cause lists and judges on leave is regularly updated on the district court websites. On Monday, a Bench comprising Justices BD Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva listed the petition before the Computer Committee of the high court..Earlier, Sahni had filed RTI applications to find out whether district courts were required to upload such information. The replies revealed that both the district and sessions judges and the high court had issued circulars making uploading of daily orders and cause lists mandatory. As per the circulars, daily orders were required to be updated on the same day and cause lists three days before..Sahni also conducted a study to ascertain how many courts were actually updating their websites with this information. His study on whether cause lists of six district courts in Delhi were being updated revealed thus:.District CourtNo. of judgesNo. of judges whose cause list was available on the same dayNo. of judges whose cause list was available on the previous dayTis Hazari1319191Patiala House372122Saket755053Dwarka463537Karkardooma815856Rohini674745TOTAL435302 (69.4%)304 (69.8%).The study also analysed how many courts were uploading daily orders on their websites..District CourtNo. of judgesNo. of Judges whose daily order of 05-03-2015 was uploaded and available on 13/03/2015 or 14/03/2015No. of Judges whose daily order of 11-03-2015 was uploaded and available on 13/03/2015 or 14/03/2015Tis Hazari1317644Patiala House372515Saket755942Dwarka462720Karkardooma873723Rohini655134TOTAL435275 (63%)178 (40%).The move to bring district court websites up to date will certainly save the time and resources of lakhs and litigants and lawyers alike. Additionally, it will also prove to be environmentally friendly and ease the over-burdened court staff..The next hearing in the matter will take place on October 14..Read the writ petition:
The Delhi High Court has recently agreed to hear a PIL seeking directions for proper management of official websites of district courts in the capital..Advocate Amit Sahni filed the PIL to ensure that information regarding daily orders, cause lists and judges on leave is regularly updated on the district court websites. On Monday, a Bench comprising Justices BD Ahmed and Sanjeev Sachdeva listed the petition before the Computer Committee of the high court..Earlier, Sahni had filed RTI applications to find out whether district courts were required to upload such information. The replies revealed that both the district and sessions judges and the high court had issued circulars making uploading of daily orders and cause lists mandatory. As per the circulars, daily orders were required to be updated on the same day and cause lists three days before..Sahni also conducted a study to ascertain how many courts were actually updating their websites with this information. His study on whether cause lists of six district courts in Delhi were being updated revealed thus:.District CourtNo. of judgesNo. of judges whose cause list was available on the same dayNo. of judges whose cause list was available on the previous dayTis Hazari1319191Patiala House372122Saket755053Dwarka463537Karkardooma815856Rohini674745TOTAL435302 (69.4%)304 (69.8%).The study also analysed how many courts were uploading daily orders on their websites..District CourtNo. of judgesNo. of Judges whose daily order of 05-03-2015 was uploaded and available on 13/03/2015 or 14/03/2015No. of Judges whose daily order of 11-03-2015 was uploaded and available on 13/03/2015 or 14/03/2015Tis Hazari1317644Patiala House372515Saket755942Dwarka462720Karkardooma873723Rohini655134TOTAL435275 (63%)178 (40%).The move to bring district court websites up to date will certainly save the time and resources of lakhs and litigants and lawyers alike. Additionally, it will also prove to be environmentally friendly and ease the over-burdened court staff..The next hearing in the matter will take place on October 14..Read the writ petition:
