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Saurabh Malik
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 19
Launching the facility of pay now, “order” later, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Sunday said litigants could get judgments home-delivered by making online payments.
Chairman of the High Court Computer Committee Justice Rajesh Bindal said the litigants could use the service to procure certified/uncertified copies of decided cases only.
Describing it a user-friendly programme, Justice Bindal asserted it was part of the High Court’s initiative to make all transactions cashless. As part of the process, a payment gateway had been launched for online transfer of money, wherever it was required to be deposited for different services. “Special prepaid cards shall also be issued by the bank for payment of charges in the High Court as well as district courts in Punjab and Haryana,” Justice Bindal added.
He along with Chief Justice Krishna Murari and other judges of the High Court were attending a state-level conference of district and session judges of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
The Chief Justice also launched five IT-based apps and programmes, including a formal online system for receiving feedback from litigant and an android-based mobile application to help the user search case status though case number, advocate name or party details. He would also be able to save details using “My Diary” module and get notification of saved cases a day before the date fixed. He would even be able to fetch the cause list of pending cases and generate cause list of own cases.
Another initiative, Surety Information Management System, would provide online verification of a person standing surety in multiple cases. Functional at Sessions Division and Subordinate Courts, it was expected to check fake sureties and identify persons repeatedly furnishing sureties in different cases.
Besides, the status of judicial court complexes and residential houses could be monitored though infrastructure web application. District judges, too, would be able to monitor progress of cases more effectively with the introduction of “Crystal Reports Software”.
Justice Bindal told the gathering that video-conferencing facility would be provided at all juvenile homes to solve the problem of non-production of juveniles.
DSP-level officers are to be appointed nodal officers in cases involving juveniles. The decision by the police is expected to solve the problem of frequent transfers of nodal officers responsible for smooth conduct of cases, as DSPs have assured stay of one-year minimum at the place of posting.
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