Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 22: The first ever proceedings of e-court were conducted today by Division Bench of State High Court comprising Chief Justice Baddar Durrez Ahmed and Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey.
In the history of the J&K judiciary, for the first time, voluminous paper files running into thousands of pages were substituted by digital files stored in micro chips.
The first ever e-court was inaugurated yesterday by the Chief Justice in the presence of Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar, Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir, Justice Alok Aradhe, Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice M K Hanjura.
The digitization will ensure more efficient, speedy and quality justice to the litigants and at the same time, chances of loss of record by natural disasters will be reduced and movement of files and their tracking will become much easier with minimal human intervention.
E-court project is one of the mission mode projects of Central Government with a vision to transform the judiciary by ICT enablement of courts to make justice delivery system affordable and cost-effective.
The objective of the e-courts project is to provide designated services to litigants, lawyers and the judiciary by universal computerization of all the courts in the country with broad objective of computerization of courts, Legal Service Authority offices and State Judicial Academies with strengthened hardware, connecting all the courts in the country to the National Judicial Data Grid, providing citizen centric facilities such as centralized filling centers and touch screen based kiosks, creating a robust court management system through digitization, document management.
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