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CJI calls for tech use for better justice delivery

Referring to difficulties in movement in J&K and Ladakh due to the mountainous terrain, the CJI said “justice sometimes cannot reach people due to geographical conditions’’. “Sometimes it is so cold that it becomes difficult even to come out of home,” he said.

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Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud on Wednesday called for use of technology to bring about an improvement in the country’s justice delivery system and also to ensure justice “reaches the common man”.

“I know it is impossible for many million people to approach the courts or even think of approaching them, because it is not possible for a common man to keep visiting the courts,’’ said the CJI at a function to lay the foundation of new building of the Jammu wing of the Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh High Court.  Highlighting the use of video-conferencing to keep the courts “open” through during the Covid-induced lockdown, the CJI said that as chairman of Supreme Court’s e-committee “it was necessary for me to run the court through technology so that people do not think that justice system has closed.”

Referring to difficulties in movement in J&K and Ladakh due to the mountainous terrain, the CJI said “justice sometimes cannot reach people due to geographical conditions’’. “Sometimes it is so cold that it becomes difficult even to come out of home,” he said.

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