Virtual Courts and E-Courts in India

A traffic challan used to mean a trip to court, a queue, and half a day lost. Now, in several States, that same case can be heard by a virtual court that works around the clock, without the violator ever entering a courtroom. This is not a pandemic-era experiment that quietly ended — it is part of a long-running plan by India's judiciary to rebuild itself around technology, and this topic is that plan.

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India's e-Courts Mission Mode Project, driven by the e-Committee of the Supreme Court, has digitised case filing, case status tracking and, through virtual courts for offences such as traffic violations, entire categories of hearings, while COVID-19 accelerated the wider use of video-conferencing for regular court proceedings.

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