Cuttack: Orissa High Court’s outgoing Chief Justice S Muralidhar Monday dedicated two new e-initiatives—Warrant Management System and PIL Portal, for the benefit of all stakeholders, including the police.
Warrant Management System is a portal of the high court developed in coordination with State Crime Records Bureau to ensure expeditious transmission and tracking of warrants.
The portal has the facility of issuing warrants to the police, tracking the status of execution and acknowledgment of execution. While this facility was available for the Cuttack district, the same was on the day extended to seven other districts.
While dedicating the facility, chief justice Muralidhar expressed concern over the pendency of a huge number of unexecuted
Warrants and said: “It is not in the interest of the rule of law if the executing arms of the court are unable to submit a compliance report in respect of the warrants forwarded to them.”
He said that as many as 61,000 non-bailable and 57,000 bailable and 3,700 distress warrants, and 600 recommitment are now pending.
Similarly, the PIL portal is a tool through which the public can know about the important PILs in the high court, its relevant orders, and reports that will also be beneficial to researchers and students.
Chief Justice Muralidhar is retiring on the day. Justice Subhasis Talapatra will be sworn in as the new Chief Justice Tuesday.
PTI