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In the modern age of evolving technologies, computer has emerged to be necessity than luxury. It has become part of our lives, and with advent of internet the computerization is not only inevitable but imperative. A country which had only 100 computers before 1970 has over five million before the turn of the century. The service sectors in the Indian economy have resorted to computerization on a large scale which ensures availability of consistent information at the right time.
The judiciary in India has also accepted its importance. The National Informatics Centre (NIC) of the Department of Information Technology which provides network backbone and e-Governance support took up computerization of the Supreme Court of India way back in 1990. Also all 18 High Courts and 9 benches took to computerization on the lines of apex court. In the year 1997, it was the turn of District Courts and computerization of all 430 District Courts was undertaken.
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Indian Courts are burdened with more cases than its capacity; it came in handy and served the purpose. It helped the proper scheduling of the cases and gave the lawyers, litigants a great relief. For example, a lawyer who is at Poona, can check up his suit/case by sitting at home on the Board of Bombay High Court on internet and need not come personally to Bombay to see the Board. Identically, the lawyer at Bombay can check up the Board of the Supreme Court of India at Bombay with the help of Computer on net.
Since the time the National Information Centre has taken up computerization, the manual work of the staff of the court is reduced. Previously, the various copies were printed to provide causelist to the advocates. The computerization has helped the department of the court in automatically generating the causelist of cases at the click of the mouse. The causelist is about scheduling of cases to be heard by the courts on the following day. These databases contain details of fresh cases, disposed and pending cases. As Cause Lists are generated automatically by the computer manual intervention has been eliminated resulting in generation of Cause List in time without any hassle. Due to this the Cases can be listed strictly in chronological order of date of filing and it eliminates irregularities. Not only that all cases having the same issues and law point(s) to be decided by the courts are grouped together and posted before one bench. This has helped the courts in faster disposal of cases.
Due to computerization the advocates/litigants need not wait for in a long queue for causelists now. They can get it at the desk of their office as early as sometime after the court hours over, which was not possible some years ago. The amount collected towards Court fee in a day is automatically calculated thus saving the time of court official’s time. Today all HCs are connected and day to day Judgements and Orders are stored on computers. So, the accessibility to the judgements pronounced and orders passed is again very fast. As the application is available on Internet, the litigant public can easily find out whether their cases are coming for hearing or not, with out bothering the advocates.
Since last few years, it has started talking to the prisoners from the jail through Video-conferencing. Thus, it saves huge cost of bringing prisoners to the Court and also hearing of cases can be speeded up. Recently, a person from abroad gave his evidence through video-conferencing. So, it can be concluded that the computer served the judiciary to give justice faster.
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