The Supreme Court on Friday introduced plans to arrange a system for speedy and safe digital transmission of its judgments to jail authorities, in order that prisoners who’ve been granted reduction don’t look forward to a replica of the licensed order to be launched. Do it.
Chief Justice NV Ramana mentioned, “In this age of information and communication technology, we are still looking skyward for pigeons to communicate orders.”
A bench headed by him had taken cognizance of the delay within the launch of 13 prisoners from Agra Central Jail, whereas the court docket granted them bail on July 8.
A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and AS Bopanna on Friday mentioned it’s contemplating a technique – ‘Faster’ – to deal with the difficulty.
“We are in the time of use of technology. We are contemplating a scheme called FASTER: Fast and Secure Transmission of Electronic Records. This is to communicate all orders to the concerned jail authorities without waiting”, CJI he mentioned.
Attorney General KK Venugopal welcomed the announcement.
CJI Ramana mentioned that he’ll direct the Secretary General of the Supreme Court to submit a report in two weeks, “so we will try to implement the plan in a month”.
On the delay of their launch even after the prisoners got reduction, the CJI mentioned: “It is too much”.
“That’s wrong”, mentioned the AG.
However, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned that there are cases of use of pretend and fabricated orders resulting from which jail authorities insist on licensed copies.
He mentioned the Supreme Court could direct the jail authorities to deal with the order uploaded on its web site as an authorized copy.
On the brand new plan, the highest court docket mentioned it needs suggestions from all state governments as except there’s web connectivity in jails, transmission will turn out to be not possible.
The court docket additionally requested senior advocate Dushyant Dave to assist as an amicus curiae within the matter.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
