vision of a visionary

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

ICT IN GUJARAT JUDICIARY

We have a vision… to fulfill the dreams of litigants by making

Judicial Delivery SystemSpeedierAffordableAccessibleTransparent andAccountable

by enhancing judicial productivity both qualitatively and quantitatively


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


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)


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


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


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/-



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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IVR System (Interactive Voice Response)

For knowing Case Status through telephone

IVR Nos.:

(079) 27664463, 27664465, 27664468 and 27664473


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)



Certified Copy

No. of Application received average per day - 200 In 2008 - 61402

No. of Application Disposed offaverage per day - 234 In 2008 - 75110


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


ADVOCATE ORIENTED SERVICES

Advocate-wise Cause List -

having Information of cases which are notified before the various courts with Stage & Board Serial Number


ADVOCATE ORIENTED SERVICESAdvocate-wise Registered Papers - having Information of papers filed by an advocate

at nominal rate for the particular period


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


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


GUJARAT DISTRICT JUDICIARY

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


Web Portal of Gujarat District Judiciary

http://gujcourts.guj.nic.in


case status on web by: Case Number Party Name Advocate Name


Judgment in Local (Gujarati) language


Court Cause List on the web


Advocate wise Case List board


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


ACT CODE SUMMARY:

• Central (Civil) : 001 – 299

• Central (Criminal) : 300 – 499

• State (Civil) : 500 – 899

• State (Criminal) : 900 – 999

Classification Code (Cont.)


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


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)


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.


Outcome:

• Revamped nearly 71,971 cases by verifying the relevant register

• Pendency brought from 122843 to 87255 122843

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Before Revamping After Revamping

REVAMPING WORK

NO. OF PENDING CASES

REVAMPING OF CASES IN GUJARAT HIGH COURT


REVAMPING OF CASES IN GUJARAT DISTRICT JUDICIARY

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Before Revamping After Revamping

Outcome:

• Pendency brought from 24,27,020 to 23,17,592


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.


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


A New

Beginning

Model E-Court


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.)


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.)


Featur

es`

Courtroom with Tamperproof facilities of

Audio Recording & Video Conferencing

Video Recording

Auto Digital Archiving

Model E-Court

(cont.)


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.)


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.)


PlacementModel E-Court

(cont.)


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.)


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.)


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.

Model E-Court (cont.)ICT IN GUJARAT JUDICIARY

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


“If I am authorized, I shall remove the word ‘Impossible’ from dictionary.”

-Wernher Von BraunLeading German American Rocket

Physicist & Astronautics Engineer of 20th Century



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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