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    e-Initiatives of the High Court Allahabad

    e-Initiatives of the High Court

     

    • Official Website of the Allahabad High Court has been developed in-house. The Mail server, Application Server, Database server etc. have been installed at the premises of the Court.
    • Implementation of CIS (Case Information System) version 1.0: The High Court has successfully implemented CIS 1.0 at High Court, Allahabad. CIS 1.0 has also been implemented at Lucknow Bench from 01.01.2022. All the Courts are functioning over CIS.
    • Online availability of reporting status of cases: Reporting status of e-Filed cases and physical cases are available on the website.
    • Online availability of Fresh and Daily Cause List of cases: The lists of all the fresh and listed cases containing the information relating to cases/ applications are published on day to day basis on the website.
    • Judgment and Copying System: The software contains several modules to facilitate typing and publication of judgments online and issuance of authenticated copies of judgments to litigants and lawyers. Facility of providing certified copy of digitized case records have also been integrated. Orders and Judgments are also been uploaded on the NJDG. Digital signing of all the judgment/orders has been started.
    • Court wise Case Running Information System: Case information being taken up in a Court Room is displayed to the lawyers/ litigants through official website and several Digital Display Boards and Display TVs installed at vantage points.
    • Online Case Status System: The litigants/ counsel may get information relating to the status of cases from the website based on filing number, registration number, petitioner/ respondent name, crime/ST number, etc. Counsel may also get the details of their cases by Advocate Roll Number. Status of efiled cases may also be searched by the diary number. Pendency status is also available on official website. Statistical data related to Commercial Court is also being published on the website. The record shows consolidated data of the institution, disposal and pendency of commercial cases of High Court and district wise breakup of statistical data for a particular month from November 2020 onwards.
    • Digitization of Court records: One Crore decided case files containing approx, 50 Crore pages, are to be digitized. Centre for Information Technology Building (7,943.44 Sq. Mtr.) has been established for the scanning and digitization work. At present, approximately 59.71 Lakh files consisting of more than 39.71 crores pages have been digitized.
    • E-Court/ e-filing/ e-stamping: e-Court and online case filing at Allahabad High Court and Lucknow Bench was started on 19 August, 2017. The collection of Court fee is being done through e-Stamping. After starting of COVID-19 pandemic period, efiling portal was redesigned and facility to efiling of all type of cases, applications and caveat has been provided. Till date, 82,638 case files and 1,09,643 Misc. Applications have been efiled.
    • Wi-fi: The entire campus of Allahabad High Court has been facilitated with high speed Wi-Fi network. The lawyers/ litigants may avail several technology driven services of Allahabad High Court on their Mobile Phones viz. list of fresh cases and daily cause list, Judgments, Court wise real time based case running information, status of cases, etc.
    • SMS facility: The bulk SMS facility to Lawyers/ litigants has been started to provide the following information:
    1. Listing of cases/IA’s containing Case no., date of listing, serial number, Court no. etc.
    2. Filing of cases, status of reporting of cases (clear/ defective) with details of defects.
    3. Other information related to cases, notification, etc. on direction of Hon’ble Court etc.
    4. On an average approximately 50 Lakhs SMSs are being sent to the Lawyers/ litigants annually.
    • Mobile Based Application: The Lawyer/ litigants can access following services on Mobile phones by using Android based application, without accessing the official website of the Allahabad High Court:-

    Status of Fresh and daily Cause List of cases, Judgment, Court wise Case Running Information System/ Display Board, Case Status Report, Day to day notifications/ notices etc.

    The Android based application has also a feature for the use of stake-holders to create their list of cases in a form of Case Diary and check status of those cases readily.

    • Vacancy Portal: The vacancies related to various Sections of the High Court is being published and monitored on the Court’s website.
    • Budget System: Web-based service has been initiated for budget monitoring. The service caters the need of detailed information visualization with regard to budgeting. Data flow lined in the service includes grant of budget by Government/ Other Authority, its demand and allocation plus utilization of sanctioned figures.
    • Uploading of digitized case files to Supreme Court’s Server: Case files of Allahabad High Court required to be sent to the Supreme Court are now being scanned, indexed and uploaded on the server of the Supreme Court.
    • Online Gate Pass: The facility of online gate pass system has been started from 9 July 2018 onwards. The module is being designed in such a way that a litigant may apply and can get online gate pass to visit to the Court Room/ Chamber of an Advocate. The online gate pass may be downloaded into Mobile/ Tablet and has to be produces with original ID proof at the time of entrance. More than 4,61,403 e-gate passes have been issued till date.
    • Installation of Digital Signage TV for Digital Display System: The existing analog based case display system has been replaced with the digital display system in new Court Building. Smart TVs’ (Digital Signage) have been installed in the Court rooms, corridors of the Court area and at various places in the premises of the High Court. The process of replacement of old analog system in old Court Building is under process.
    • Installation of Justice Clock: The Justice Clock to display statistical data regarding institution, disposal, pendency etc. of cases on real time basis has been installed at Allahabad High Court. Virtual Justice Clock has also been published on the official website of the Court. Month wise summary of institution, pendency & disposal are also shown.
    • Video Conferencing Facility for Counsels: The Ld. Counsels were facilitated with video conferencing facility for appearance in their cases to minimize physical presence of Lawyers/ litigants in the Court room during Court proceeding, considering pandemic time of Covid-19. The facility is available thereafter. Cisco Webex software has been purchased for smooth functioning of virtual proceedings of Court at Allahabad and Its Bench at Lucknow.
    • Online invitation of application for recruitment: Web applications have been designed for inviting application for HJS and Law Clerk (Trainee) recruitments. Integration of payment gateway for payment of fee online is under consideration. Generation of various reports and publishing of result related to the recruitment process are the part of the application system.
    • Application has been designed for sending intimation through SMS regarding internal confidential communication to the concerned. Further, an in house application namely Record Archiving  is also being used for digitizing documents, letters, etc. on which no further action is required to be taken by the section concerned.
    • Setting up new state-of-the-art LAN/ Networking infrastructure: Process to setting new state-of-the art LAN/ Networking infrastructure at Allahabad High Court is going on.