TMI BlogVIRTUAL COURTS MUST CONTINUE AND OPTION BE PROVIDED FOR HEARING THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE – this will save lot of manpower and all type of costs local and other travelling, organizational, administrative and other costs for all and can expedite delivery of justice. Besides virtual courts are environment and health friendly.X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... VIRTUAL COURTS MUST CONTINUE AND OPTION BE PROVIDED FOR HEARING THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE – this will save lot of manpower and all type of costs local and other travelling, organizational, administrative and other costs for all and can expedite delivery of justice. Besides virtual courts are environment and health friendly. - By: - DEV KUMAR KOTHARI - Other Topics - Dated:- 17-1-2023 - - VIRTUAL COURTS MUST CONTINUE AND OPTION BE PROVIDED FOR HEARING THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE this will save lot of manpower and all type of costs local and other travelling, organizational, administrative and other costs for all and can expedite delivery of justice. Besides virtual courts are environment and health friendly. Virtual Courts are conti ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... nuing with physical courts: We find that virtual courts and online hearing are continuing besides physical courts in many of forums. There are examples where courts are having benches for physical courtrooms besides virtual / video conference courts. For example, we find about ITAT at https://itat.gov.in/page/content/Notice-Board and in that we can search and find physical and virtual hearings both conducted at difference locations. For example in Kolkata bench, we find hearing by virtual courts for Benches at Ranchi, Patna, Cuttack. We can search for such benches or can find in constitution of Kolkata Benches which include virtual courts for other benches. Similarly we find for other benches. For example some links are as follow ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s: https://itat.gov.in/page/content/Notice-Board search with Kolkata, Ranchi, Cuttack... etc. In case of search with Kolkata we find Kolkata Benches which are at present functioning in physical court room mode and benches of other places, carried through Kolkata Bench ( Zonal HQ) are generally in virtual mode. Pune Bench is also carrying virtual courts for other benches like Panji and Raipur benches by virtual court. Ahmedabad Bench has also carried hearing of Rajkot Bench by way of Virtual Court. Courts can provide option for virtual hearing: Courts/ Tribunal which are equipped and which are still having virtual court system must provide an option to even local litigants to make representation in virtual court. Court ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s, which are not so quipped, can be equipped for virtual courts. Virtual Courts have lot of benefits to all: Judges, litigants, representatives of litigants all can avail benefits and advantages of ease of doing work, work from home in fact work from anywhere , work without or with least of travelling (local and out station both). Occasions of adjournment for any reason (related with judges, litigants, administrative staff etc.) can be reduced considerably because of added flexibility is found in on line working with Information technology enabled services ( ITES). These will saves time of all and make representation for litigants smoother , easier and cost effective. Courts are places where highly educated and experien ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ced people work: In Courts, judges, counsels and even administrative officers and staff are highly educated and experienced people. The physical court system is main cause of piling cases due to lower disposal. In ITES based filing ,working, representation etc. work can be expedited. SOME USEFUL REFERENCES AND LINKS: We find a 24 page PDF document tiled HEARING THROUGH VIDEO CONFERENCE ITAT DELHI at the following link: https://www.voiceofca.in/siteadmin/document/HEARINGTHROUGHVIDEOCONFERENCE-ITATDELHI.pdf This document provide detailed information about system of virtual courts and virtual hearing for ITAT at Delhi. This can be used as example of guidelines for functioning of virtual courts. https://ecomm ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... itteesci.gov.in/service/virtual-courts/ https://vcourts.gov.in/virtualcourt/ Other work by video conferencing: Our PM and other ministers have carried out and are still using ITES for doing work with video conferencing. We can find search results by proper searching criterion for example: Search with prime minister modi - work through video conferencing shows 77,44,000 results. Search with ministers in India their work through video conferencing found 20.90 crore results. Search with ministers in India work through video conferencing found 16.40 crore results. It is true that many of them may relates with the same subject, reported in different websites . Even if take 1% of total numbers as related to different su ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... bjects, this shows that how effectively ITES have been used and applied by Shri Narendra Modi and other ministers in India in many events and occasions which would not have interaction with any minister if ITES were not used. Interaction can be from anywhere: In case of virtual courts/ e-courts interaction of judges, members, counsels and others for the purpose of hearing can be from anywhere. For example, in any case two judges or members and counsels can join and appear from anywhere and different places. Two judges or members can be posted at different places but can act as judges / members for a bench working at third place. This will make constitution of benches more flexible and wide. May be some administrative orders/ no ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... tifications will be required. Counsels need not be available locally they can also appear and attend hearing virtually from anywhere. Therefore, work through ITES need to be continued and preferred mode of working by all concerned. Some pages showing simultaneous working of ITAT in physical court and virtual court mode in reent past and some future dates are appended below: Virtual and physical courts working simultaneously some examples. 1. CONSTITUTION 16-19 Jan 23 Kkolkata physical and virtual ( for some other benches) 1.A CAUSE LIST PATNA 16-19 JAN 23 ALL VIRTUAL BY MEMBERS AT KOLKATA 1.B CAUSE LIST RANCHI 16-19 JAN 23 ALL VIRTUAL BY MEMBERS AT KOLKATA 2. CONSTITUTION CHANDIGARH VI ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... RTUAL AND PHYSICAL 9-13 JAN 23 3. CONSTITUTION VIRTUAL E-COURT OF RAJKOT AT AHMEDABAD 4. CONSTITUTION VIRTUAL PANJI AND RAIPUR AT PUNE const20jan23 5. CONSTITUTION VIRTUAL DEHRADUN AT DELHI 13jan2023 6. CONSTITUTION chandigarh physical and virtual 16 to 20 jan 23 Raders can visit website of ITAT that is https://itat.gov.in/page/content/Notice-Board and search for any of benches. - - Scholarly articles for knowledge sharing authors experts professionals Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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