Gujarat HC Launches E-Filing Facility, Exclusive Physical Filing Counters & More [Read Press Note]
The Gujarat High Court has launched 5 exclusive counters for Physical Filing of cases that will function from 11.00 am to 02.00 pm on all working days. These counters, set up at Gate No. 2 of the High Court premises, are earmarked as follows: Counter 1— All Single Judge and Division Bench Bail matters including regular, temporary, anticipatory bail and parole,...
The Gujarat High Court has launched 5 exclusive counters for Physical Filing of cases that will function from 11.00 am to 02.00 pm on all working days.
These counters, set up at Gate No. 2 of the High Court premises, are earmarked as follows:
- Counter 1— All Single Judge and Division Bench Bail matters including regular, temporary, anticipatory bail and parole, furlough
- Counter 2— All Single Judge and Division Bench Criminal Matters other than Bail matters specified for Counter 1
- Counter 3— All Division Bench Civil Matters
- Counter 4— All Special Civil Applications and matters under Article 227 of the Constitution (Single Judge)
- Counter 5— All other Civil Matters (Single Judge)
It is intimated that payment of Court Fees and filing of affidavit by the Petitioners will be optional for now. However, the same will have to be furnished once the normal working of the High Court is restored.
So far as health and safety norms for physical filings are concerned, the High Court has instructed:
- The pleadings/ documents should be delivered in a sealed envelope with the filing Advocate's details and case type clearly written on the envelope;
- The envelopes delivered will be kept untouched and unprocessed for at least 24 hours and thereafter it will be forwarded to the concerned section for filing in the CIS;
- All Officers and members of the Staff dealing with these case files must wear masks and gloves;
- Only those Advocates or registered clerks who have to deliver the case files will be allowed to enter.
Inter alia, the High Court has launched two e-services— (i) e-Filing of cases and (ii) Email My Case Status.
E-Filing
The e-Filing for High Court will be available at https://efiling.ecourts.gov.in/ from today onwards. The same will be accepted for the following case types:
- Criminal Miscellaneous Application
- Special Criminal Application
- Writ Petition PIL
- Admiralty Suit
- First Appeal
- Tax Appeal
- Letters Patent Appeal
It is intimated that the Advocates shall receive "instant SMS updates" of the progress of the case up to its Registration from the e-Filing portal automatically. Further, the facility of email filing of these case types will be continued till August 21, 2020 only.
Email My Case Status
Under this facility, advocates and the litigants or anyone from the public or organizations like Government Departments etc. can get the status of the High Court cases automatically in the email address of their choice, after necessary online registration of their request
This first of its kind facility would enable anyone, who otherwise is always able to search the status of the case on the website, to get the automatic updates of the case in his/her email box directly.
As per a Circular issued in this behalf,
"EmailMyCaseStatus Service by High Court of Gujarat will effectively serve as a virtual Case Status Inquiry Counter or a Case Status eCounter; with added functionality of getting even the future updates of the cases of interest to everyone and anyone."
The procedure for availing this service may be accessed in the Circular attached in this report.
The High Court has launched an "e-book digest" of Important Judgments delivered during Covid-19 pandemic. It contains important judgments delivered by the benches from March 24, 2020 to August 14, 2020.
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