The first Cyber Forensic Laboratory (CFL) of India was established in
Tripura on 11 August 2013. The lab was established at the Tripura High
Court and the purpose of the lab is to facilitate information related to
court cases. The CFL was inaugurated by Supreme Court judge Justice
Madan B. Lokur.
Features of the Cyber Forensic Laboratory (CFL)
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The CFL would offer automatic SMS alert to not just the lawyers, but
also the litigants regarding the details of the court case. In case, the
petitioner or the lawyer is absent on the day of trial, SMS alert would
go to the concerned parties through the CFL.
• CFL would facilitate decentralisation of the legal services in India.
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As a part of CFL, the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) will also be
developed under the supervision of the Supreme Court. The information
related to the legal services, judicial actions as well as the court
cases will be available through NJDG. NJDG would be operationalised by
January 2014.
• CFL is the part of e-court programme.
The
training regarding this new system would be given to thousands of
judicial officials. As of now, 13000 judicial officers, which also
include the judges, have already been trained about e-court system. As a
part of the modernisation, video conferencing systems are also being
expanded in India. Under the video conferencing system, any lawyer or
judge will be able to talk to the accused who is lodged in the jails.
The
e-court programme in India was first introduced in the year 2007 when
Justice Madan B. Lokur pioneered video conferencing systems between the
Tihar jail and Delhi High Court. Also, 140 district courts in India out
of 620 have their own websites for providing information related to the
cases. E-court schemes of all kinds facilitate faster disposal of
pending cases in the courts.
It is important to know that the
states of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura got their individual high
courts in March 2013. All the seven northeastern states- Arunachal
Pradesh, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Tripura and Assam were
formerly under the Gauhati High Court with benches in the state
capitals. Sikkim had its own separate high court.
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