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ashok kumar (Social Worker)     08 February 2013

Notice by email

 

What is the legal standing of a Notice sent by email?

How does the sender prove sending the notice if the receiver denies having received it?

Is there any law/SC ruling on notices sent by email?



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SRISHAILA.DHARANI (Advocate&consultant)     08 February 2013

 

Supreme Court to serve notice by email

 

 

In a recent order passed by the Supreme Court, keeping in view the delay in service of notice to the respondents to effectuate their appearance before the Court, the Chief Justice of India has directed that "on addition to normal mode of service, service of Notice(s) may be effected by E-Mail for which the advocate(s) on-record will, at the time of filing of petition/appeal, furnish to the filing counter a soft copy of the entire petition/appeal in PDF format"
 
The Order, passed in the matter of Central Electricity Regulatory Commission v. National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd. was passed by the Chief Justice notes that "in various Courts, the statistical data indicates that, on account of delay in process serving, arrears keep on mounting. In Delhi itself, the input indicates that fifty per cent of the arrears in Courts particularly in commercial cases is on account of delay in process serving.". In this view he laid down the following guidelines in this regard;
[i] In addition to normal mode of service, service of Notice(s) may be effected by E-Mail for which the advocate(s) on-record will, at the time of filing of petition/appeal, furnish to the filing counter a soft copy of the entire petition/appeal in PDF format; 
[ii] The advocate(s) on-record shall also simultaneously submit E-Mail addresses of the respondent(s) Companies/Corporation(s) to the filing counter of the Registry. This will be in addition to the hard copy of the petition/appeal;
[iii] If the Court issues notice, then, in that event alone, the Registry will send such an additional notice at the E-Mail addresses of the respondent(s) Companies/Corporation(s) via E-Mail;
[iv] The Registry will also send Notice at the E-Mail address of the advocate(s) for respondent(s) Companies/Corporation(s), who have filed caveat. Advocate(s) on-record filing caveat shall provide his/her E-Mail address for effecting service; and
[v] Within two weeks from today, Cabinet Secretariat shall also provide centralized E-Mail addresses of various Ministries/Departments/ Regulatory Authorities along with the names of the Nodal Officers, if already appointed, for the purposes of service.
The Order itself clarifies that this "facility is being extended in addition to the modes of service mentioned in the existing Supreme Court Rules. This facility, for the time being, is extended to commercial litigation and to those cases where the advocate(s) on-record seeks urgent interim reliefs."

SRISHAILA.DHARANI (Advocate&consultant)     08 February 2013

Please the above reply from me 

srishaila,advocate,9741425514,bangalore,sdharani120@gmail.com


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