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Introduction to AIR Supreme Court/ High Court or the

respective CD-ROM Software

BY SAKSHI GARG

ASSISTANT MANAGER

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2IntroductionAIR Supreme court/ High court or the respective CD-ROM software is introduced by AIR Infotech, a concern of All India Reporter Pvt. Ltd.How to Access:• Campus wide limited access• 4 concerned user license• To connect the database, contact help desk for "dongle"Content:• AIR Supreme Court Software (1950- till March’ 2013)- contains more than 36,000

judgments• AIR High Court Software (1950- till March’ 2013)- contains more than 86,000 judgments• AIR Criminal Law Journal Software (1950- till March’ 2013)- contains more than 44,000

judgments• AIR Supreme Court Weekly Software (1991- till March’ 2013)• Bare Acts - Constitution of India, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), Code of

Criminal Procedure, 1973 (act no. 2 of 1974), Evidence Act (1 of 1872), and Penal Code (45 of 1860)

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3AIR Multiple Infobase software’s HomepagePress [Ctrl+Tab] or Click “Index” to select required database

AIR Criminal Law Journal Database

AIR High Court Database

AIR Supreme Court Weekly Database

AIR Supreme Court Database

Bare Acts

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4Familiarity with the interface

Go Forward [Shift + F6]

Next Judgment [F5]Go Back [F6]

Previous Hit [Shift+F4]

Next Hit [F4]

Previous Judgment [Shift + F5]

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5How to printOpen the case & click on print tab (Ctrl+P). Select section option and the case and then ok

Print [Ctrl + P]

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6Features & Search Options

Indices

Nominal Index Subject Index Topical Index Judge Index Remarks Index Additional Tools

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7Nominal IndexSearch cases by the name of the petitioner e.g. looking for “A. B. Abdul Kadir v. State of Kerala” (AIR1976SC182) judgment, go to “A” alphabet > “Aa” letter (all cases starts from A. or AA letter, searchable easily)

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8Subject IndexSearch by subject e.g. looking for “Penal Code (45 of 1860) and Section 100”, go to “P” alphabet > “Pe” letter > click on + sign, to go to particular section like s.100 for section 100

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9Topical IndexSearch cases by a topic e.g. looking for “Death Sentence”, go to “D” alphabet > “De” letter > (all cases related to the topic are searchable easily)

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10Judge IndexSearch judgments delivered by a judge e.g. Hon’ble justice S.C. Sen, go to “S” alphabet > “Sa” letter > (all judgments delivered by the judge are searchable easily)

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11Remarks IndexCases fetch by following remarks:

Overruled No Longer Good Law Per Incuriam (ignores statutory provision and therefore wrong

decision made) Dissented (disagreed) Reversed Followed Relied Followed by other journals

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12Additional Tools Forms & Pleading Comparative chart- for CPC and CrPC

Comparative chart of provisions, code of civil procedure Comparative table of tables, code of criminal procedure

HC Equivalent Citation for other journals Criminal Law Journal Equivalent Citation for other journals SC Equivalent Citation for other journals

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1310 Different Types of Searches Head Note Page No. Any Condition Cases Referred Judgment Free Text Relevancy Nominal Date of Decision Advanced Query

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14Head NoteSearch by Statute name (laws/ acts) e.g. Penal Code 45 of 1860, Provision/ article/ section/ rule/ order e.g. art.19/ s.34/ r.10/ o.1 , Main topic e.g. murder, Keywords e.g. eye witness and click on “Apply to All”.

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15Search within searchIn HEADNOTE search, enter any topic in MAIN TOPIC field e.g. “Judicial Service” and no. of result found in PARTITION WITH HITS BOX. To filter search result, enter topic in KEYWORDS field e.g. “Appointment of High Court Judge”

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16Any ConditionA Multiple-Combination Search of Statute & Provision/Judge/Nominal/Bench Strength/Date of Decision/Topic-Free Text. e.g. search judgment delivered by six judges bench strength on topic “Murder” & 4 judgments are shown as result.

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17Cases ReferredSearch cases in which given citation [citation format/ nominal] are referred. ex. of Citation format: 2003 1 SCC 228 ex. of nominal citation: Kesavananda Bharati

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18Judgment SearchSearch single/ multiple terms or phrase (in inverted commas) in a judgment e.g. "equality before law" "right to life"

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19Free-text SearchSearch any term or phrase in entire text i.e. headnotes & judgement. E.g. to search admissions in medical college, search cases by “"admission medical college%" @6” where % search for colleges and @6 means search max. 6 words in b/w given words.

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20Relevancy SearchSearch cases of their relevancy e.g. "culpable homicide" ^murder [ ^ indicates “culpable homicide” but not murder] e.g. “Life imprisonment” | “Death sentence” [ | indicates EITHER Life imprisonment OR Death sentence]

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21Nominal SearchANY NOMINAL: Enter any one party nameNOMINAL INDEX: if know both parties name e.g. Maneka Gandhi v Union of IndiaUse wild card operator (* for multi-character,? For single character) if not sure of nominal’s spelling e.g. ag*wal, organi?ation

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