Starting form 1st January 2004, in close coordination with the Registry of the Supreme Court of India, NIC has implemented ‘Filing Defects System’ along with the already implemented ‘Case-Status Information System’ on the Supreme Court’s web site. As soon as a case is filed in the Supreme Court, it is scrutinised by the Scrutiny clerk to make sure that the file is free from Filing defects. The Registry has prepared a list of Filing Defects consisting of 192 items. If the Scrutiny clerk finds any defect in a case, the case is not registered and the list of filing defects found in the case is sent to the Advocate-on-Record who filed the case for rectification. This process usually takes time, depending on the advocate’s response. All along the litigant is kept in the dark without knowing the actual reason for not getting his case heard by the court. With the implementation of this ‘Filing Defects’ application on Web, the litigant will come to know for what reason his case is not listed for hearing in the Supreme Court. He/She can access Filing Defects information either through Diary no. or his/her own name on http://casestatus.nic.in.