New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday said the pressure of the prison authorities for the official copy of the guarantee order through post-snail post services in the internet era resulted in painful delays in the release of inmates and regulating safe electronic balls, faster baptism (fast and safe transmission of electronic records ), For quick transmission guarantee orders.
“In the days of information and communication and internet technology, we still see the sky for Merpati to communicate orders,” CJI N V Ramana and Judge and Rao and A Bopanna regretted before launching a pioneering effort.
Bench directed the SC registry led by the Secretary General to prepare within two weeks, in a consultation with General Lawyer General Tushar Mehta and Amicus Curiae Dushyant Dave, a detailed report on new internet-based mechanisms.
This will be called a quick and secure transmission of electronic records (faster) and will provide an APEX court order to the High Court, district courts, prisons and all other authorities.
The direct trigger for the initiation of Suo Motu from the process by CJI on a much neglected problem was the delay of the Agra prison authorities to release 13 people despite a guarantee by the APEX court after they spend more than a decade in prison despite being decaded by the crime.
Before the emergence of postal services, Pigeon Post is popular, especially during the war, and is actively used until World War II.
Merpati courier services in India came from 1946, when submitted to the police by the army.
It is headquartered in Cuttack, Odisha.
Merpati officially retired in 2002.
Post and telephone services, which signed a death warrant for Pigeon Post, now facing serious competition from internet-based email facilities.
CJI-LED Bench said, “We have asked the Secretary of the Supreme Court of Supreme Court to design within two weeks of electronic communication mode that is safe for the SC order instant transmission which provides a guarantee to accuse the prison authority to minimize, as far as possible, the time between administration Guarantees and liberation from prison.
“The center welcomed the idea of ​​the Venugopal KK General Prosecutor’s Office and Lawyer General Tushar Mehta smoothed the mechanism proposed as” progressive “.
Mehta said every order guarantee uploaded on the official website of the Supreme Court must be treated as an official copy of certified by prison authorities and take steps to release prison inmates.
The bench said, “The idea of ​​passing this command is to develop fast and authentic electronic modes for the transmission of court orders.
Guarantee orders are always uploaded on the official website of the Supreme Court.
But, the prison authority does not accept.
Copies of orders downloaded from the website.
So we Want a safe transmission from authentic copies directly to prison authorities for the liberation of inmates who have been guaranteed by the court.
“SC said for prison authorities to receive court orders through electronic mode, each prison needs to be equipped with internet facilities.
Given the deployment of the internet that is poor in rural and semi-urban areas where many prisons are located, the bench asks the state government to notify the courts of the time period where they will equip each prison with internet facilities.