New Delhi, July 3: It is so convenient that there are no bundles of files on the dais; Chief Justice J S Khehar said Monday as the Supreme Court rolled out its ambitious paperless project by going into the digital mode to conduct the day’s matters.
The Chief Justice expressed happiness saying the move has helped in removing the bundles of files from the podium. “From yesterday, I am very happy because it is so convenient. There are no bundle of files here (at the dias),” the CJI said while hearing a matter on the first day of reopening of the apex court after summer vacation.
Justice Khehar, who was holding the bench along with Justice D Y Chandrachud, occasionally took the help of the court staff to go through the files in digital mode and conducted the day’s hearing without any hiccup. While trying to adjust to the digital mode, some of the judges in the first five courtrooms also resorted to the conventional style of going through the hard copies of the case files.
A bench headed by CJI Khehar had March 23 said that the apex court will go “paperless” within six to seven months. Later at a seminar here May 10, CJI Khehar, had said digital filing of cases would make the judicial system “extremely transparent”. PTI