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CJI DY Chandrachud to shortly address the inauguration of Neutral Citation for the Indian Judiciary and National Conference on Digitization
#SupremeCourtofIndia #cjidychandrachud #virtualcourts

CJI Chandrachud along with Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, Justice S. Muralidhar #SupremeCourtofIndia #OrissaHighCourt

CJ Muralidhar: We are grateful CJI Chandrachud has managed to squeeze in time for this momentous event as to what digitization holds in store for the future of judiciary.

CJ Muralidhar: the last such ICT meeting was held 6 years ago in Lucknow. With Union govt very liberal in funding the ecourts project, this has helped in taking the initiative ahead.

CJ Muralidhar: it is imperative that we have a National judicial security data policy since we are generating vast data on hourly basis and that we maintain the integrity and security of the personal data of litigants and we decide how the data is accessed. Clips of youtube live… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJ Muralidhar: we are dependant on outside agencies for our resource needs in this area which needs to stop and we need to build our own resources. There are issues such as no uniform connectivity of internet and there are still areas in north east where there is no internet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Supreme Court judge Justice Rajesh Bindal: a lot of money sent by the e-committee is not used properly by some of the High courts to improve the ICT initiatives. This is an area which needs to be looked into. When a NIC officer is changed, he does not have domain knowledge of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Supreme Court judge Justice Rajesh Bindal: a lot of money sent by the e-committee is not used properly by some of the High courts to improve the ICT initiatives. This is an area which needs to be looked into. When a NIC officer is changed, he does not have domain knowledge of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Justice Bindal: there was training of judges etc first.. now the staff also has to be trained like clerk, munshi etc... then litigants have to be informed and trained... there are private and govt litigants... we have 5 crores pending cases and out of that each case has 3 to 4… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI Chandrachud inaugurating the neutral citation for Indian Judiciary #SupremeCourtofIndia

CJI DY Chandrachud: I was amazed by the American accent presentation now and CJ Muralidhar told me it was a product of the Artigical Intelligence. Today I have some presentations and as a CJI I may wander into topics which concerns me as a CJI and the slides will help me stick to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: I am proudly regarded as the son in law of Odisha since my wife is a Odia. My central focus as CJI is not to place technology in a silos away from the citizens but to keep it amid them. I was amazed by the steps taken by Chief Justice Muralidhar.

CJI: Supreme Court of India is not a SC of Tilak marg and it is the supreme court of india, by india , for India and thus HC is not the HC of that capital city but citizens across the states.. some of the finest lawyers are not from the capital city of states and they don't come… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: Look at the outlay for the phase 3 of the e courts project: this will be between 2023 to 2027 and the tota; outlay will 7, 210 crores.
2023-24: 2024 cores
2024-25: 1906 crores
2025-26: 1523 crores
2026-27: 1552 crores
Outlay for phase 1 and phase 2 was not more than 2023-24… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: Finance Ministry had told us that let this be a centrally sponsored scheme where states and centre contribute resources. But our experiences in the past has not been uniform across the country. During 14th finance commission devolution increased from 32 to 42 percent but the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: One option is default option where funds will be provided by the Union govt and channelled by the e committee.. but this would cover the specifications we lay down for the entirety of the country. Model 2 envisages that if state wants higher specifications and that the state… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: Digitization budget is close to 238 crores, cloud storage has a budget of 1235 crores.... digital preservation, access to digital services... there are 24 major components in e courts project...

CJI: I seek to create paperless courts, virtual courts, cloud streaming, then there is live streaming... then there are clips of a how a Patna HC judge asking a IAS officer as to how he was not properly dressed.. these are funny clips which should be controlled since there are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: It will be difficult for us to tell Artificial intelligence to tell us how to hand down sentence following conviction in criminal case and we as judges, we don't think we want to cede our discretion which we exercise on sound judicial lines in terms of sentencing policy...at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: Parliamentary standing committee told us that in High Courts, so much of technology infrastructure which has been set up is obsolete as it us not used... screens and other ICT is kept in a corner as a reminder that we once used technology. The committee states that all the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: Some HCs have disbanded video conferencing system but the infrastructure is in place. I have written to all the chief justices of high courts and informing them about the concerns and not to disband it.. Chief justices tell me that we have so many infrastructure in place..… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: I get a lot of PILs from lawyers across India that hybrid hearings have been stopped. i would appeal to the chief justices that please do not disband that infrastructure and technology was not confined to the COVID19 pandemic and it was for COVID and beyond..

CJI: SC is ready with e-filing... we have engaged with lawyers and clerks of lawyers and we are in final stage and it is called awareness. we have aksed AoRs etc to come in groups who would be made aware of e-filing.. the munshi and clerks are being trained and they cannot be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: once e filing is there.. there should ne no physical filing... In one of my judgments which i was editing last night, I have said we cannot burden our lawyers due to our uneasiness with technology... answer is simple : RETRAIN OURSELVES.

CJI: Some of the judges on the retirement mode have completely gone electronic... front end of technology is meant for dummies and back end is perhaps is not for dummies.

CJI: We also thought to have a project management consultant in phase 3 of the project which requires RFP, drawing of specifications. We also propose to have digital courts technology office.. which will act as a central procurement office for the phase 3 of the project. We have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI: if you look at i-juris it has a roll down feature.. where HC can upload data on the infrastructure provided by the judiciary .. be it womens toilet, do you have sanitary napkins.. etc.. I got a request from the secretary general that a woman judicial officer from Maharashtra… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

CJI : We have also recently launched the LGBTQ handbook. We are also launching a legal glossary of gender inappropriate terms.. we have read lines like victim was ravished by appellants... or terms like concubine... then terms like Nigro arrested with cocaine..the glossary would… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…