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Scheme to get court orders on website

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI Oct. 22. The Centre will soon launch an innovative scheme at a cost of Rs. 14.91 crores whereby litigants could get certified copies of court orders through the website on payment by credit cards.

The Department of Justice will seek an approval from the Delhi High Court for commencement of this e-facility initially in New Delhi and later in Chennai, Mumbai and Kolkata.

A number of innovative features in this scheme include filing of documents and plaints addressed to courts on the website, retrieval of certified copies of court orders on payment by credit cards.

It is also proposed to have video conference links in each of the three court complexes in Delhi — Tis Hazari, Patiala House and Karkarduma courts — with Tihar jail to do away with the need for transporting undertrials from the jail to the court merely for the remand.

The above facility is intended to plug a security loophole and effect considerable savings in expenditure on transporting undertrials. Besides, interactive voice response system would be installed at the central enquiry and facilitation centre to answer telephonic queries regarding status of cases, dates of hearing, etc. All the 13,000 district and subordinate courts in the country will be computerised to provide direct contact points for citizens for efficient judicial functioning and speedy disposal of cases.

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