Justice DY Chandrachud said today that "We have formulated live streaming rules so that cases can be live-streamed, the hearings before a court can be live-streamed for the rest of the country. Because I do believe that citizens are entitled to know what goes on in the courts, they are entitled to know why cases are adjourned, whether judges sit from morning to evening in deciding cases. It is the basic right of the citizens to know".
He also told during the Inaugural Function of 'B' & 'C' Wings of the High Court Annexe Building of Bombay High Court, Bench at Aurangabad, "We find from the National Judicial Data Grid that we have 15.42 crore orders available on the NJDG. 4 crore cases are pending but we have 11 crores cases on the NJDG which have been dispensed with and of which orders are available. The High Courts have 56.02 lakh cases pending, but 3.17 crore cases have been dispensed with. During the COVID pandemic, 2.18 crore cases were registered in India and 1.48 crore cases were disposed off by the district judiciary in India. 55.75 lakh judgments are now available on the NJDG. We have an elastic search facility so lawyers who cannot afford the cost of paying for software in the open market can search what they want to - 'whether it be a case under labor law or under the Motor Vehicles Act".
The judge threw light on several projects, proposed and underway, of the Supreme Court E-Committee, of which he is the Chairperson, to indicate how to use technology to pave the way for moving into the future. He remarked, "Let us also celebrate some of the achievements of the Indian judiciary"