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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (8337)	10/13/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12475

India's Supreme Court goes high-tech. supremecourtofindia.com Supreme Court on the Net Copyright 1999 THE STATESMAN (INDIA) October 11, 1999 PRESS TRUST OF INDIA NEW DELHI, Oct. 11. - The Supreme Court today went hi-tech with the Chief Justice of India putting the daily and advance list of cases on Internet which would help litigants across the country to know when their cases would be heard without coming to the capital. The Chief Justice, Mr AS Anand, who completed one year in the highest post in judiciary today, after inaugurating the Supreme Court cause list on Internet said "it is a step forward as we enter the new millennium" and promised that many more such steps would be taken in future. The lists being put on the Net with the help of the National Informatics Centre (NIC) include the daily cause list, weekly list and supplementary cause list. The inauguration ceremony was attended by all judges of the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General of India, Mr Soli J Sorabjee, senior advocates and members of the Bar. Mr Justice Anand said putting of the cause lists on the Net was aimed at helping litigating public and to expedite disposal of cases. Giving the keynote address, the director-general of NIC, Mr N Seshagiri, said the NIC would provide each of the Supreme Court judges with a multi-media computer which would be able to take dictation from the judges. "Within two to three years the stenographers as a profession will vanish," he said adding that was why the government was at present training around 10,000 stenographers in various computer related activities. Mr Seshagiri said the dictation software has to be tried by the judges as their inputs would help improve it. He said at Allahabad High Court the NIC has taken up the job to group together cases having the same question of law to reduce the burden of a whopping backlog of 7,50,000 cases. Mr Seshagiri said NIC has already computerised all the 18 High Courts and would be finishing the job of computerising all the district courts within two to three months. Speaking at the function, Mr Justice Anand said: "With the the help of NIC a website will be created on the Net for Supreme Court where all post 1 January, 1999 judgments of the court will be available." He said all pre-1999 judgments were available on cd-roms.