The bulky annexures and the accompanying bags which take up space in Supreme Court corridors could very well be a thing of the past..In a significant step towards digitisation, Chief Justice of India JS Khehar today remarked in court that the Supreme Court will do away with the practice of filing voluminous case records in a bid to reduce bulky paper books..ToI reporter Dhananjay Mahapatra tweeted the following:.Currently when a special leave petition is filed in Supreme Court, all case records including bulky judgments of lower courts and trial court are annexed with the SLP..The Court is planning to collect all these records electronically from lower courts and high Courts so that there is no requirement to file hard copies of the same in Supreme Court..A person filing an appeal in Supreme Court will have to file only the grounds on which appeal is being made..CJI Khehar said that the Court is planning to bring this into force in six to seven months..In a recent interview with Bar & Bench, former Supreme Court judge Justice GC Bharuka spoke about the eCommittee’s goal of having a completely paperless judicial system. However, the retired judge says that this is yet to be achieved..“We had wanted to implement the policy in 5 years, that is by 2011. Yet not even a fraction of what had been visualised in this policy has been achieved in terms of speedy, cost effective and affordable justice and it will not be completed in the next fifty years if it goes on with way it is being pursued.”.He also spoke about digitisation of evidence, a step that will go a long way towards saving the court’s time and resources..“I would say a better idea would be that of recording of evidence digitally – there are courts where judges write this. There are so many errors that can creep in. Let this be recorded digitally so that if there are any errors, later it can be corrected. Automatically, the number of errors will come down.”
The bulky annexures and the accompanying bags which take up space in Supreme Court corridors could very well be a thing of the past..In a significant step towards digitisation, Chief Justice of India JS Khehar today remarked in court that the Supreme Court will do away with the practice of filing voluminous case records in a bid to reduce bulky paper books..ToI reporter Dhananjay Mahapatra tweeted the following:.Currently when a special leave petition is filed in Supreme Court, all case records including bulky judgments of lower courts and trial court are annexed with the SLP..The Court is planning to collect all these records electronically from lower courts and high Courts so that there is no requirement to file hard copies of the same in Supreme Court..A person filing an appeal in Supreme Court will have to file only the grounds on which appeal is being made..CJI Khehar said that the Court is planning to bring this into force in six to seven months..In a recent interview with Bar & Bench, former Supreme Court judge Justice GC Bharuka spoke about the eCommittee’s goal of having a completely paperless judicial system. However, the retired judge says that this is yet to be achieved..“We had wanted to implement the policy in 5 years, that is by 2011. Yet not even a fraction of what had been visualised in this policy has been achieved in terms of speedy, cost effective and affordable justice and it will not be completed in the next fifty years if it goes on with way it is being pursued.”.He also spoke about digitisation of evidence, a step that will go a long way towards saving the court’s time and resources..“I would say a better idea would be that of recording of evidence digitally – there are courts where judges write this. There are so many errors that can creep in. Let this be recorded digitally so that if there are any errors, later it can be corrected. Automatically, the number of errors will come down.”
