Haryana: A computerized filing counter for on-line institution of cases has started functioning at the Punjab and Haryana High Court located at Chandigarh with effect from May 24, 1996.
The Software was developed by the Haryana State Unit of the National Informatics Centre. The NIC Haryana State Unit is looking after the activities of Punjab and Haryana High Court.
With the establishment of the on-line facility, all types of cases such as urgent, regular and ordinary; pertaining to various branches such as Writ, Criminal, Civil Revision etc are now filed only at one place and the diary number with other relevant details are printed by computer and given to the advocate of the person filing the case. An enquiry counter with a computer terminal has also been established for giving the status of the case.
Earlier, in the manual system, the case underwent various stages such as filing, scrutiny, registration, binding etc. During this process the receipt/diary number is not given and advocates had to face difficulties in locating the case in the event of any discrepancy/objection in filing of the case. All this was very tedious and inconvenient and led to delay in the proceedings of the case. Now the computerized facility has provided great convenience to public as the receipt of the case is given right at the time of filing and all the enquiries can be made by referring to the computer diary number. Hence making things easier and handy.
A list containing the type of discrepancy is also put up in the Bar Room daily and the person concerned can directly contact the computerized enquiry counter for further details.
The daily listing and allocation of cases have already been computerized at the High Court. With the on-line filing, the linkage with the listing will be established further helping the reduction in time to generate the daily lists. All this has been possible because of the High Court's zealous attitude to bring more efficiency in operations with technical support of the NIC Haryana State Unit.