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thelawassist   18 April 2016

Can it transform judiciary?

Can IT transform Judiciary?

The Indian Judicial system is independent and impartial. The Indian Courts have maintained very high standards of judicial integrity. However, the system is very time consuming. There is huge backlog of pending cases causing delays in actually delivering justice. It is estimated that around 250million cases are pending in various courts in India. As some people say, “Justice delayed is Justice denied”. The cost of litigations are going up, and some litigants are indulging in corrupt practices.

In the past few years, few allegations of corruption in the judiciary have been reported in the news. However, the proportion is very less and thus, not alarming at present. The Government has initiated various measures to introduce reforms in judiciary, namely:

  • Setting up of more fast-track courts

  • Digitizing the current case records, converting courts to ‘e-courts’ for speedier delivery of justice. Delhi High Court became the first paperless e-court recently.

The reforms ensure that India gets a speedier judicial system. However, this is just a beginning. Setting up of ‘e-courts’ is not the last mile in itself. The penetration of IT in Indian Judiciary has just begun. Can they replicate the success of BFSI in Judiciary? Do we know the opportunities of transformation?


 



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N.K.Assumi (Advocate)     18 April 2016

E-Courts will certainly transform the Judiciary, and keeping this in view even the IEA has been amemded. But, fortunate State like Delhi, they have all the necessary infrastratures with human resources to assist the Court in rendering speedy justice to the litigants.But what about the rest of the States in the Country especially the NE? Unless Govenment appoint the right person in the right job, even the establishments of e-courts will not be of much help to the litigants.


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