Vision of a Visionary
“The vision of legal community for the 21st century is to aid the dynamic development process with a close interaction with Science and Technology with an ethical approach.”
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
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We have a vision… to fulfill the dreams of litigants by making
Judicial Delivery SystemSpeedierAffordableAccessibleTransparent andAccountable
by enhancing judicial productivity both qualitatively and quantitatively
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For Judiciary to fulfill this vision, it needs to
Re-engineering the process by synergizing Science and Technology
Optimize use of Human resources
Bring about change management by harnessing the potentiality of Information and Communication Technology
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The journey of Computerization began in 1995-96 of Gujarat High Court as well as of District Courts in a phased manner
Beginning with Unixware(1.0) operating system on servers and dumb terminals at end user level
For handling voluminous data in an efficient and secured manner, option of stable platform is:
Linux OS with Oracle RDBMS for High Court LAMP (Linux/ Apache/ Mysql/ PhP) technology for District Courts
( Total Cost of Ownership limited to Hardware)
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Retrieval and synchronization made easy and manageable by standardized coding
• Usage of unique Advocate Code checks the legitimacy of practicing advocate.
• Auto generated data for all prescribed Registers, processes and monitoring of service
• Data updations, Daily Cause list and Orders & Judgments through web link on daily basis.
• Grouping and bunching of cases for speedier disposal• Maintaining court dairy
ADVANTAGES
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GUJARAT HIGH COURT
PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICESCase Status
having full Case Information at nominal charge per query at Inquiry Counter
Case Status queried per day - 300
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PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICES
Simple Copy of Orders/ Judgments
Issued to the public soon after signed by the Hon’ble Judge at nominal charge per page at Inquiry Counter
Average Nos. of Orders/ Judgments issued : 200
Revenue Collected during the year 2008: Rs.15,77,038/-
Revenue Collected during the year 2009: Rs.8,61,025/-
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PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICES
To know the Case Status on mobile
For High Court
ghcs <Caseside> <Casetype> <CaseNumber> <Caseyear> to 56767
For City Civil Court, Ahmedabad
cccs <Caseside> <Casetype> <CaseNumber> <Caseyear> to 56767
For District Court, Rajkot
Raj rajd <Caseside> <Casetype> <CaseNumber> <Caseyear> to 56767
SMS (Short Message Service)`
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PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICES
IVR System (Interactive Voice Response)
For knowing Case Status through telephone
IVR Nos.:
(079) 27664463, 27664465, 27664468 and 27664473
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PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICESCertified Copy
Litigants/Advocates get auto generated copy on the next working day after the order gets signed by the Hon’ble Judge (s)
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PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICES
Certified Copy
No. of Application received average per day - 200 In 2008 - 61402
No. of Application Disposed offaverage per day - 234 In 2008 - 75110
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PUBLIC ORIENTED SERVICESWeb service:
(gujarathighcourt.nic.in)
Case Status
Available in the late evening every office working day
Orders/Judgments
Once transferred, available in the late evening of the same day
Free Text Search in Orders/Judgments
Roster Management
List of Classification Codes
Average Hit per day: 6350
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ADVOCATE ORIENTED SERVICES
Advocate-wise Cause List -
having Information of cases which are notified before the various courts with Stage & Board Serial Number
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ADVOCATE ORIENTED SERVICESAdvocate-wise Registered Papers - having Information of papers filed by an advocate
at nominal rate for the particular period
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MONETARY EFFECT
Revenue of Rs.180 lacs collected through Case Status Simple copy of orders/judgments Advocate-wise list of Registered papers Advocate-wise cause list Advocate-wise filing papers Soft copy of Reportable Judgments to
Reporters
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CLASSIFICATION OF CASES IN GUJARAT HIGH COURT
Six Digit subject-wise Classification Code
Bunching of cases filed before the High court, which helps in
Court Management & Case Management
Speedy disposal of cases
Roster Management
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Standardized common codification for the entire State
Advocate entry by Advocate Registration number (Sanad number)
Advocate-wise Cause List
Single installation can serve more than one establishment
Supports
Bilingual multiple advocate entry
Online Caveat matching
Role and time based user permission
Online Case Status and Orders/Judgments
Features of newly developed Web based software
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Web Portal of Gujarat District Judiciary
http://gujcourts.guj.nic.in
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case status on web by: Case Number Party Name Advocate Name
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Judgment in Local (Gujarati) language
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Court Cause List on the web
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Advocate wise Case List board
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Gujarat pioneered in Three Level 10 Digit Classification Code, which consists of
1) Act Code (in three characters all numeric)2) Chapter Code (in three characters – two numeric and one
alphanumeric) and 3) Section Code (in four characters three numeric and one
alphanumeric)
Classification Code
First Level relates to Act Code, Second Level relates to Chapter code
and Third level related to Section code.
Implemented in December 2008 in Gujarat District Judiciary
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ACT CODE SUMMARY:
• Central (Civil) : 001 – 299
• Central (Criminal) : 300 – 499
• State (Civil) : 500 – 899
• State (Criminal) : 900 – 999
Classification Code (Cont.)
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From Jail to Court and visa versa. Facilitated in Courts at:
City Civil & Sessions Court, Ahmedabad Rajkot Vadodara Surat Jamnagar Banaskantha at Palanpur Porbandar Junagadh Bhavnagar Mehsana Ahmedabad (Rural)
video conferencing
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Benefits:
23,223 accused produced before the court of law
Police deployment for mobilising production reduced considerably
Savings on escort charges Rs.89,34,054/- fuel charges Rs.2,02,250/-
Instances of accused escaping from custody substantially reduced.
video conferencing (Cont.)
(Source – Gujarat State Police Department)
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REVAMPING • As a major of litigant centric module, on the 50th year of establishment of
Gujarat High Court, revamping work conceived and started in November, 2008 for physical verification of all pending cases with a view to provide correct information to the public, which involves: Updation of data in respective Register Accomplishment of backlog entry of cases filed before computerization Entering, Updating & Verification of data in computer Classification/Codification of cases
• Advantages Bunching of cases Roster Management for effective management Creating information for Court Management and Case Management Listing of old and unripe cases with advance notice to the advocates/litigants Enable monitoring output of Judicial Departments of High Court and District Court.
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Outcome:
• Revamped nearly 71,971 cases by verifying the relevant register
• Pendency brought from 122843 to 87255 122843
87255
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20000
40000
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80000
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Before Revamping After Revamping
REVAMPING WORK
NO. OF PENDING CASES
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REVAMPING OF CASES IN GUJARAT DISTRICT JUDICIARY
2427020
2317592
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No. o
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Before Revamping After Revamping
Outcome:
• Pendency brought from 24,27,020 to 23,17,592
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E-LIBRARY
For easy and instant access of leading legal databases for ascertaining the latest case law to enable the judges in deciding the cases.
Personal computer with printer and legal databases like AIR, GLR, GLH has been provided to all District Courts and Family Courts.
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eCourts Mission Mode Project Monitored by Department of Justice,
E-committee and NIC
work of setting up Computer Server Room & Judicial Service Centre at 246 sites reaching completion
Data feeding through CIS backlog module using Laptops distributed to Judicial Officers is also reaching completion
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A New
Beginning
Model E-Court
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Witness Protection
“The State has a definite role to play in protecting the witnesses…. As a
protector of its citizens it has to ensure that during a trial in Court the witness could safely depose truth without any fear of being haunted by those against
whom he has deposed.” Supreme Court of India
in Zahira Habibulla v. State of Gujarat
Model E-Court
(cont.)
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Legal Basis -
IndiaCrPC 167 as amended w.e.f 16/8/2003
Production of accused through medium electronic video linkage made possible by this
amendmentCrPC 273
Recording of evidence through video conferencing amounts to recording in
“presence” of accused meets the requirement of CrPC 273 (AIR 2003 SC 2053 State of
Maharashtra v. Praful V. Desai) Inter State Case Transfer
The trial of the accused in interstate transfer case shall continue without his physical presence by the Court dispensing such presence and to
the extent possible shall be conducted with the aid of video conferencing. (Kalyanchandra
Sarkar v. Rajesh Ranjan a/s. Pappu Yadav AIR 2005 SC 972)
Model E-Court
(cont.)
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Featur
es`
Courtroom with Tamperproof facilities of
Audio Recording & Video Conferencing
Video Recording
Auto Digital Archiving
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(cont.)
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Features
(contd..)
Courtroom with Tamperproof facilities of
Videoconferencing has allowed testimony to be used for individuals who are not able to attend the physical legal settings. In a military investigation in North Carolina, Afghan witnesses have testified using videoconferencing.
Model E-Court
(cont.)
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Project
Partners
TIFAC: Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council(Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India)
CDAC: Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(Under Department of Information Technology, MCIT, Govt. of India)
DFS: Directorate of Forensics Sciences(Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India)
&
DFS GUJARAT: Directorate of Forensics Science, Gujarat
( Govt. of Gujarat)
Funded by
Developed & Implemente
d by
High Court of Gujarat, Sola(Govt. of Gujarat)
and
City Civil Court, Ahmedabad
Vision of
End User
Model E-Court
(cont.)
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PlacementModel E-Court
(cont.)
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Benefits
Playback live proceedings by court audience. Allows judges to see recording of proceeding for review Educate judicial officers & Train courtroom personnel by using live
proceedings. Playback statements of prosecutors & those of defendants’ when
disputes arise. For use by Judges to review pronouncement of sentence. Case management tool for use by judge to replay why case was
rescheduled last time. For trial of perjury ,to refresh a judge's recollection when witness turns
hostile . Use as a backup by court officers who missed a word or statement. Allows successors to have a complete and holistic picture of recorded
evidence. Appellate forum to have a clear idea of trial .
Model E-Court
(cont.)
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Security
Tamperproof
Proprietary unique codec is incorporated
Watermarking on Video files
No Delete/cut/edit option
Secure
MD-5 encrypted password
SQL Server 2000 with full Security
Application mapped with Machine IDs like IP/MAC
Model E-Court
(cont.)
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Further Scope
3rd party audit of software Biometric access control system for application login Use of document visualiser Option of conversion of deposition from speech to text Integration of the system & database with NIC
courtroom application Keyboard for advocates in the courtroom to type their
written submissions during the proceedings Information Kiosk for litigants, advocates etc.
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Roadmap Ahead
E-filing Online Query for precedent,
citation, statutes etc. Online filing through
community service center Electronic issue of Notice /
process using digital signature
E-learning Web casting
Tracking of issuance of service of summons
Access to International Database
Feedback Reports Legal Info Database Digitization of old records Kiosk E-mail / SMS alerts for case
status
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“If I am authorized, I shall remove the word ‘Impossible’ from dictionary.”
-Wernher Von BraunLeading German American Rocket
Physicist & Astronautics Engineer of 20th Century
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Sometimes you just Sometimes you just have to take the have to take the
leap,leap,
and build your and build your wings on the way wings on the way
down !down !
- Kobi Yamada- Kobi Yamada
Thank Thank youyou
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