HC directs full-scale operationalisation of case monitoring system

TO ensure full-scale operation-alisation of the Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS) for effective digital coordination between the High Court and the government departments, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday directed the Registry of the Madras High Court to digitize all court documents and upload them in CCMS, with further directions the Public, Home, and IT departments to ensure that the data shared through CCMS platform is made effectively available to not just the secretariat, but all government offices in the state.

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Justice B Pugalendhi gave the directions while hearing a petition filed by a finance company seeking direction to the Karur town police to file a report in a cheating case registered against a man for pledging 418.4 grams of spurious gold, resulting in a loss of ₹16.8 lakh to the company. After two sub-inspectors of police inadvertently gave incorrect information to the HC in connection with the case, the judge opined that such a mistake could have been avoided if there had been an effective digital communication system between courts, government officials, and law officers.