High Court of Judicature at Allahabad
The Indian High Courts Act 1861 established High Courts of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in the year 1862. It vested power in the Queen of England to issue Letters Patent to establish other High Courts like the High Courts of the Presidency Towns with similar powers. In exercise of this power, a High Court of Judicature for the North Western Provinces at Agra was established on 17 March 1866 replacing the Sadr Diwani Adalat. Sir Walter Morgan, Barrister-at-Law was appointed the first Chief Justice of the High Court of North Western Provinces. In the year 1869, it was shifted to Allahabad. By a supplementary Letters Patent dated 11 March 1919, it’s nomenclature was changed to “the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad”. The Oudh Act,1925 Courts (United Provinces Act IV of 1925) was passed by the United Provinces Legislature with the sanction of the Governor-General. It abolished the earlier Oudh Courts Act, and established a Chief Court for Oudh, with 5 Judges: one Chief Judge and 4 puisne Judges. The United Provinces High Court (Amalgamation) Order, 1948, issued by the Governor-General under Section 229 of the Government of India Act, 1935, amalgamated the Chief Court for Oudh with ‘the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad’, initially with six Judges.
The High Court of Judicature for North Western provinces began its function from a building in Agra and was later shifted to Allahabad in 1869. Sir Walter Morgan was the first Chief Justice, Shri Shah Mohammad Suleman, the first Indian Chief Justice and Shri Bidhu Bhushan Malik was the first Chief Justice after Independence. The foundation stone of the present building of the High Court was laid in 1911 by Sir John Stanley, the then Chief Justice. The construction of the building started in the year 1914 and was completed in 1916. On 27 November 1916 the court was shifted to the present building. In January 2019, 30 Court Room building with modern facilities was made functional. Presently, there are Court 91 Rooms and 96 Chambers besides the Court and the Chamber of the Hon’ble the Chief Justice. A museum was established on a permanent basis, during the High Court’s Centenary celebrations held in 1966, making it the first High Court to have its own museum. The Museum is having a rich collection of Judgments, deeds, photographs, dress, furniture and the original charter of Her Majesty the Queen Victoria of 17 March 1866 by which the High Court was created and established.
In keeping pace with the time, separate building for digitiza
tion of records, known as the Center for Information Technology was started March 2016 and stands out as one of the most impressive and modern state-of the-art Information Technology building Country. The court maintains a permanent bench at Lucknow, the administrative capital of the State. A new High Court building has been constructed at Gomti Nagar, Lucknow on 40 acres land, in which there are 57 Court Rooms and is equipped with all modern facilities. As on 14 February 2023, against the strength of 160 Judges, the working strength is of 100 Judges.
Information Technology / Computerization Committee, Allahabad High Court
Member, Information Technology / Computerization Committee
Hon’ble Mr. Justice Anjani Kumar Mishra
Chairman, Information Technology / Computerization Committee
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| Hon’ble Mr. Justice Pankaj Bhatia Member | Hon’ble Mr. Justice Manish Mathur Member | Hon’ble Mr. Justice Shree Prakash Singh Member | Hon’ble Mr. Justice Vikram D Chauhan Member |
Status of the eCourt projects
Status of the e-Courts Projects – Completed and On-going
- ICJS – ICJS (Inter-operable Criminal Justice System) functional in all the District Courts of Uttar Pradesh. The Interoperable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) has been inaugurated and made functional from 23rd Feb 2021 to facilitate speedy justice through data-exchange between the courts and police. Further, eFIR and eChargesheet in PDF format downloadable facility also available in CIS for the District Courts of Uttar Pradesh. Court Fees payment through Online payment mode has been enabled for District Courts of Uttar Pradesh on ePay Portal – https://pay.ecourts.gov.in and also through Stock Holding portal, online payment functional from 23rd March 2021. Integration with Land Record and CIS was made functional from 23rd Feb 2021 under the guidance of eCommittee, Supreme Court of India. Court user can enter the disputed property details and able to link the case. Till date more than 1500 Land Records are mapped with Court records in CIS. Display of Court records in BHULEKH website is pending at Land and Revenue Department, Uttar Pradesh.
Drupal based District Court websites and ecourts.gov.in – District Court websites have been designed in such a way that one can enter the court concerned and see the daily progress of his case just by clicking map of Uttar Pradesh in the Map of India, then concerned Districts, Court complex, court concerned, date etc. Now all the districts of Uttar Pradesh have DRUPAL based websites. Mapping of District Court websites have been done with ecourts.gov.in portal. All the District Courts have been directed by Hon’ble High Court to regularly update the District Court related content so that latest information like details of Judicial Officers, notices, circulars etc. is available on District Court website.
National Judicial Data Grid(NJDG) –
| NJDG | Status |
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| 529 Establishments are migrated on CIS 3.2 and replicated on the NJDG. | |
| As on 20th December 2022 total 11413141 pending Cases(Pre Trial Cases) have been uploaded on NJDG. | |
| Total 7163036 Orders and Judgements uploaded till date (20.12.2022). | |
| Monitoring Team constituted comprising System Officer/ System Assistant/ ICT Technical Manpower/DSA for 25 parameters monitoring on Data Cleansing. |
Email Creation Currently more than 2330 e-Mail IDs of Judicial Officers have been created on the behest of eCommittee, Hon’ble Supreme Court of India for official correspondence with Judicial Officers.
Digital Signature Tokens – 2000 quantity of Digital Signature tokens have been provided to Judicial Officers of Uttar Pradesh.
Server Installation for District Courts 161 number of 2P Rack Servers and 11 number of 1P Low-end Pedestal Servers have been procured and installed for 74 District Courts through eCommittee Fund. Additional 58 number of 2P Rack Servers have been procured and installed for 34 District Courts through State Government Fund.
Laptop and Printers – 2655 number of Laptops and 2655 number of Printers has been procured and provided to Judicial Officers of Uttar Pradesh through State Government Fund.
Video Conferencing –
Studio Based Video Conferencing facility between Districts and Jails is being provided with the fund of State Government. So far, 71 District Courts and 69 Jails have been provided with studio based Video Conferencing facility. Efforts are being made to provide VC facility in all 71 District Courts and 69 Jails. 31 number of Desktop based Video-conferencing Units for 4 District Courts and 27 Outlying Courts.
- Desktop Based Desktop based Video Conferencing Units have been provided to 147 Court Complex and 70 Jails.
Hardware – In Phase-II of eCourts Project, So far total amount of 99.09 crores has been allotted by the Department of Justice Government of India for procurement of Computer Hardware and 84.61% of the funds has been consumed in the procurement and installation of hardware and its peripherals.
Total 2107 i5 and 6321 i3 Desktops of the latest generation and high-end configuration have been purchased, delivered, and installed in almost all District Courts in Phase-II of eCourts Project.
Total 1736 Courts have been provided with additional 6 LAN points and 185 Courts have been provided with 12 new LAN points along with Switches. Furthermore 186 left out Court Rooms have been provided with LAN facilities.
2072 Courts has already been provided with Display Board monitors with thin client, extra monitor with splitters; and 2072 Courts have been provided with Duplex printers and MFD printers. 150 District Court Complexes have been provided with Kiosks, Hard Disks, Projector, and DG Set (as per requirement). Computer Desktop, 1 UPS, Printer and LAN items have been provided for 71 DLSAs and 304 TLSCs.
Total 207 i5 and 621 i3 Desktops of latest generation and high end configuration have been purchased and the same has been installed in remaining Courts, Fast Tract Courts, Additional Courts under 14th Finance Commission (other than FTC), Commercial Courts.
136 Duplex printers and 136 MFD printers have been delivered to 119 Fast Track Courts, 5 Commercial Courts and 12 regular Courts. The installation of them has been completed.
WAN/ VPNoBB – Ensured connectivity to all the District Court Complexes through VPNoBB. Total 165 District and Outlying Court Complex have been connected through VPNoBB. WAN Connectivity (10 Mbps – 100 Mbps) is being provided by BSNL in all Districts. At present 148 locations are connected through WAN.
Digitization of District Courts – Initiatives are being made for starting digitization activities for District Courts of Uttar Pradesh.
E-Initiatives
eCourt project reports/ statistics High Court Allahabad
- Best practices of the High Court
- Digitization of court records: One Crore decided case files containing approx. 50 Crore pages..More
- Best practices of the District Court
- A web based eservices module was developed for ensuring efficient, effective, and user friendly web based integrated…More
