TLA Moves Court With A PIL For Implementation Of Uniform Procedure For All Filings In Delhi District Courts

The Petition is based on the premise that severe mismanagement and mal administration during the sequence of filing of cases, specifically in relation to filing procedure adopted for miscellaneous applications etcetera, is observed in Delhi District Courts. The procedure and practice can be made more litigant friendly, avoiding difficulties in terms of lost documents, misplaced files and inconsistent formats.

Karan S. Thukral, Advocate through the aforesaid Writ has proposed that all filings should be done at the filing counter / filing department / registry of the Court and preferably, a complete embargo be levied on all miscellaneous filing directly across the bar to the presiding judge or the reader. In this way, the Courts as well as the litigants will be able keep a better track of the applications moved and a permanent record will be maintained.

"One must look up to the practice adopted by the Delhi High Court and the Supreme Court when it comes to filing of Cases/ Applications/ Documents, etc. The filing procedure in the Hon'ble High Court and the Hon'ble Supreme Court passes through a serious scrutiny system by the Registry Department which also takes notice of the basic requirements like number of copies of pleadings to be filed, font size, line spacing, etc. This is something which is entirely missing in the Delhi District Courts." exclaimed Karan S. Thukral.

He further added "With the increasing backlog of cases, maintaining proper case records goes without saying. However, with the current practice adopted by the District Court in Delhi, Chaos is inevitable. The filing system in the District Courts demands an over-do and should move towards uniformity"

The matter is now listed before the Delhi High Court and is to come up on 18-01-2023 for filing of detailed status report.