Delhi High Court Launched e-court Fee System making Justice Delivery System Paperless

The Delhi High Court on 20 November 2012 launched the e-court fee system at its premises to cut off the difficulty and delay in filing cases and to make the justice delivery system paperless and hassle-free.

The new system launched is a joint initiative of Delhi Government and the Computer Committee of the High Court which is headed by Justice B. D. Ahmed and it is going to allow litigants to buy stamp papers--used to file court cases online instead of having to physically stand in queue to do so. Also, the new system is fully secure as it could not be tampered with or counterfeited.

The Committee had earlier in 2008 launched a project in cooperation with the State Government to make the High Court an electronic court to reduce the use of paper and thereby making filing and disposal of cases easy.

Furthermore, there are also plans to introduce the system in the Capital’s district courts. The Computer Committee was working on it along with the Government.
The system is perfectly customer-friendly. The instant a litigant or a lawyer would make a payment for court fee, he would be immediately issued a receipt with a unique number and a bar code which could be verified at the registry at the time of filing of petitions. Once the verification is done, the number would get locked, eliminating even a remote possibility of its reuse.

Further, litigants or lawyers can make payment for court fees in cash or through cheque or pay order or draft. They could also use RTGS facility to make payment once the system goes online.

The litigants and lawyers would get a great relief as earlier at times they had to wait for several days or pay extra money to get court fee stamps of the required denominations due to their unavailability.

The court fee stamps would be available 24x7 so that filing of cases becomes easy. This is a historic step which is going to bring transparency in the administration of justice.