Battleground Bengal: Why Mamata Banerjeeâs Warning To Central Forces On Poll Duty Has Sinister Implications And Needs To Be Called Out
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Apr 19, 2021 01:57 PM
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee
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The EC should also assure the CAPF personnel deployed on poll duty in Bengal that they would be provided immunity from any cases and action by Bengal police.
Otherwise, the purpose of deploying CAPF personnel to ensure free and fair polls in Bengal will be defeated.
Ever since the start of the campaign for the ongoing Assembly polls in Bengal, Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee has been relentlessly targeting the Election Commission (EC) and the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) deployed on poll duty in the state.
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Reform efforts to digitize our judicial system should focus on appropriate flows of data for justice delivery
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Last week, the eCourts Committee released its Digital Courts Vision and Roadmap, charting the path for digital reform of India’s judicial sector. I read the 86-page report with interest, given the extent to which it would likely impact my profession. But as much as I appreciate the vision, I believe it could have gone further.
It is important to recognize that the work of this committee is actually the third phase of judicial system reform in India and as such, it was constrained by what had already been done before. The focus in Phase I was on taking the judiciary digital as a result, no effort was made to provide digital services to citizens. Phase II focused on litigants, creating case information systems through which court filings could be accessed and systems
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x The idea is to show flexibility of the Indian Judicial system. Not for a moment do we want to replace the physical hearing. said Justice Chandrachud during launch of Supreme Court s new website for Judgments and e-Filing 3.0.
He said this, with reference to Bombay High Court s recent decision to switch to virtual hearings again from physical hearings in wake of surge in Covid19 cases.
Justice Chandrachud further said that while they don t wish to replace physical hearing, they are conscious of the need to protect public health of the lawyers, litigants who come to Courts across the country.
Justice Chandrachud says idea behind virtual court system is not to replace physical courts
Supreme Court judge and chairperson of its e-committee, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, on Friday said live-streaming of court proceedings was on the brink of becoming a reality.
The judge was speaking at the inauguration of a new website for judgments and e-filing.
Justice Chandrachud used the occasion to clear the air on whether or not virtual courts had actually replaced physical courts.
The judge said the idea behind virtual court system was not to replace physical courts, but, instead, to show the “flexibility” of the Indian judicial system to ensure that access to justice was not denied even during the hardest of times.
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The Supreme Court s Artificial Intelligence Committee on Tuesday launched its Artificial Intelligence portal SUPACE(Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Court s Efficiency). Judges.
The event was attended by CJI Bobde, CJI designate Justice NV Ramana and Justice Nageswara Rao, who is also the Chairman of the Supreme Court s AI Committee, and High Court Judges.
While launching the Court s Artificial Intelligence Portal, the CJI called the system a perfect blend of human intelligence and machine learning and a hybrid system , which works together with human intelligence.
He stated that the system being launched is unique as there is interaction between the human being and machine which creates remarkable results