Paperless Court at the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh

Honourable High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh successfully went live on the DSpace 7-based paperless court solution to set a new benchmark in the Indian Judiciary by transforming the live case hearing process to digital form using the DSpace-based solution. On the other hand, DSpace has entered the league of mission-critical solutions by serving live court case hearing processes across multiple courtrooms.

Considering the importance and transformational change brought by the solution, Honourable Chief Justice of India, Dr. D Y Chandrachud launched the project in the august presence of dignitaries like:

• Mr. Arjun Ram Meghwal (State Law Minister)
• Mr. Manoj Sinha (Governor, Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir)
• Mr. N. Kotishwar Singh (Honourable Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh)
• The entire High Court family and key members of the Union territory 

Salient features of the solution

• Running the live court case proceedings across multiple courts and catering to 150 plus concurrent users. Court case hearing is one of the critical processes in the union territories/states considering their direct impact on democracy. Hence, no downtime is expected during court proceedings.
• The solution manages both disposed and fresh case records with the provision of incremental records addition.
• More than 150 concurrent users working on a million plus items sizing more than 20 Terrabytes and rapidly growing.
• DSpace is tightly integrated into the Judicial IT eco-system i.e. 
  • Variety of integrations with Case Information System, a judicial ERP developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC), Government of India's IT arm, 
  • Integrated with production capture workflow and other IT applications for seamless data exchange.   
  • Specialized modules developed to manage live court case proceedings within DSpace.
• Advanced analytics are in place for various assessments.

The solution has directly benefited citizens by reducing the processing time from record submission to the hearing and added to the transparency & governance in the system.

Other courts serviced using DSpace for similar requirements by DSquare Technologies: 

• Supreme Court of India - 1.5 million items/15 Terrabytes data
• High Court of Jharkhand
• Bombay High Court - anticipated to manage 350 million records 
• Calcutta High Court - anticipated to manage 800 million records
• Orissa High Court (live cases)
• Orissa district courts
• Gujarat high court 
• Tripura High court 

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