The Hindu Business Line : President advocates e-judiciary system

THE President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Thursday said there was need to work towards creating an electronic-judiciary system for faster judicial process.

Addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of the AP High Court here, Mr Kalam said "such a system will help monitor progress from the time the case is registered, till it is disposed off with judgment. The entire processing must take place electronically."

This system will ensure easy search, retrieval, grouping, information processing, judicial record processing and disposal of the cases in a transparent manner.

The Government has approved a plan to connect all the 15,000 courts from the district to the Supreme Court through Wide Area Network, he said.

The President suggested a mobile legal aid and Lok Adalat systems and networking of the two. The AP High Court could consider creation of mobile legal aid and Lok Adalat for the on-the-spot settlement of cases in rural areas.

Advocating a systematic analysis of the pending cases, Mr Kalam said grouping of such cases should be done to sort out cases of similar law points so that the same are placed before a particular judge or bench.

The AP High Court could suggest to the village authorities to introduce a system of out-of-court settlement in villages with the assistance of reputed persons in the region. This will enable settlement of large number of cases in the village itself, leading to a harmonious atmosphere.

A `Judiciary Programme Management Group' can bring down pendency of cases. The group should have the authority to create mobile courts, which could move to various districts for hearing the cases in the village itself and provide speedy justice.

The Chief Justice of AP High Court, Mr Justice G.S. Singhvi, said computerisation of the courts in the State would be completed in three years.

The Governor, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde, wanted a careful scrutiny of Public Interest Litigations (PIL), many of them are filed for publicity.

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