The court said this while rejecting law graduate Vijendra Kumar Verma’s plea to be made judge in a subordinate court in Uttarakhand.
Law graduates must have functional knowledge of computers if they want to become judges, the Supreme Court has said.
The court said this while rejecting law graduate Vijendra Kumar Verma’s plea to be made judge in a subordinate court in Uttarakhand.
Verma was denied the post because he did not know how to operate a computer.
The court explained its reasons for rejecting Verma’s petition by saying that all players in a system that relies on e-governance must be computer savvy. In future, all courts in the country will be computerised so that they are more efficiently run. In that respect, the new judges who are being appointed must have basic knowledge of computer operation, a bench of justices Mukundakam Sharma and Anil R Dave said.
Verma had challenged Uttarakhand Public Service Commission’s rules that made practical knowledge of computer operations an essential qualification for the post of judge in the state.
Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia is interested in providing a strong infrastructure to the judiciary and make it e-savvy, the central government has doubled cost estimates for its e-courts project.
Last month, the cabinet committee on economic affairs okayed a grant of Rs935 crore for implementing e-courts projects in the country. In 2007, the same project had been granted Rs441.8 crore. This money would be used to 14,249 courts in 3,069 court complexes. Earlier, the government had planned to cover 13,348 courts in 2,100 complexes.
The revised cost estimate also makes provisions for wide area network connectivity and data entry of pending cases. It also provides equipment for uninterrupted power supply at the courts.
A report says that the total estimated cost of infrastructure of district and subordinate courts was Rs7,077 crore until May 2010. This excludes estimates for Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir and Allahabad, which did not provide their estimates.
In the current financial year, this requirement is estimated at Rs2,162 crore. However, the total plan outlay for the entire 11th five-year period, ending 2012, is just Rs701.08 crore. From 1993-94 to 2009-10, states and union territories received Rs1,102.18 crore under a central scheme for development of infrastructure in subordinate courts.
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