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| 'It will speed up delivery of justice' |
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 21: In a move towards the digitization
of judiciary, the first paperless e-court Srinagar (Wing) in the State was
inaugurated today here at High Court Srinagar.
The court will start functioning from Monday and will
use digitized case records thereby bringing down paper and space required to
maintain the records.
Chief Justice of J&K High Court, Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, while
inaugurating the e-court project said it will help litigants as well as
advocates to know the status of different cases speedily.
Justice Durrez thanked Chief Secretary, B B Vyas for the quick response
and providing timely funds for the completion of the project; which took only
four months to accomplish.
The e-court would provide an electronic case list (e-case list) before
the presiding judge to make digital noting on a computer that has electronic
case records. The case records and notings would be synchronized in the
available database.
“It is the
memorable and historic day in the State when the whole world is digitized we
are not now behind digital revolution,” Justice Durrez said.
“Digitization
of records will help to keep our records up to date as well as the records will
not vanish because of natural disasters like we witnessed earlier in 2014
floods," he said.
On the occasion, Justice Alok Aradhe, informed the participants that
3.25 crore of pages are in progress to be digitized.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey presented the vote of thanks at the end of
the function.
The function was attended by Justice M K Hanjura, Chief Secretary B.B.
Vyas, DGP, S P Vaid, Principal Secretary Finance, Navin Choudhary, other
officials and lawyers.
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