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New Indian Express
a day ago
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Madurai Bench of Madras HC tells government to decentralise access to court case monitoring system
MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the home secretary, government of Tamil Nadu to decentralise access to the Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS) for effective tracking of cases involving government entities. Justice B Pugalendhi gave the direction recently following an incident in which two sub inspectors of police inadvertently gave wrong information to the court in a financial fraud case in Karur. The judge observed that if the investigation officer had himself provided the information to the government advocate virtually, such a mistake could have been avoided. Upon hearing that digital platform CCMS has been introduced by the government to monitor and coordinate the handling of all categories of court cases involving the government, the judge suggested the HC registry to assign unique department codes or identifiers to cases, corresponding to the names of the government departments, so that when officials log into the portal, only cases relating to their departments are visible to them. When it was told that CCMS is currently available only in the secretariat, the judge directed the home secretary to decentralise the CCMS platform at all levels, so that real-time case data can be accessed by all officials, without the need for their physical appearance in courts. The matter was posted on August 29.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Hindu
Operationalise Court Case Monitoring System, HC tells Home Secretary
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has directed the Home Secretary to take necessary steps to operationalise the Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS) platform at all levels and work in tandem with the High Court Registry to ensure that appropriate Department Codes or Identifiers are assigned at the time of case entry. Justice B. Pugaledhi observed that it had been clarified by the Registry that CCMS, a digital platform, had already been introduced by the State to monitor and coordinate handling of all categories of court cases involving the government, including civil, criminal, writ and public interest matters. The court observed that once a case is filed before the High Court, the Registry feeds the details into their system, which is then reflected in the CCMS portal. Therefore, all the cases filed before the High Court involving government entities would be readily available in bulk form (dump) within the CCMS portal. However, unless filtered appropriately, these cases may not be immediately visible to the sub-department or officer concerned. The court suggested that to ensure effective and targeted access, the Registry, at the time of feeding the case details into CCMS, assign a unique Department Code or Identifier corresponding to the name of the government department, sub-department, or office involved in the litigation. Such codes should be shared with the government, so that login credentials for each department or officer are configured accordingly. By doing so, when an officer logs into CCMS using their designated credentials, only those cases filed against or concerning their department or designation will be visible, thereby streamlining accountability and reducing administrative delays. The court said that it was informed that access to CCMS is currently limited to the Secretariat and not made available to other government officers. If login access to CCMS is extended to other field-level officers, they can directly view such petitions upon filing, prepare timely and accurate instructions and transmit the same to Government Law Officers. This would avoid vague oral briefings, last-minute adjournments, and the need to depute officers to court merely to gather or confirm procedural information. Until such access is decentralised and operationalised, the intended efficiency of CCMS remains unrealised in day-to-day case coordination. The Home Secretary should take necessary steps to operationalise the CCMS platform at all levels. Access should be extended to all the government officers, so that real-time case data can be accessed without the need for physical appearance or oral instruction. Such a step would not only ensure administrative efficiency, but also preserve the time and resources of the government machinery, the court observed. The Home Secretary should also work in tandem with the High Court Registry to ensure that appropriate Department Codes or Identifiers are assigned at the time of case entry, so that CCMS access is effectively filtered and mapped according to each department or designation. This coordinated exercise would facilitate targeted visibility of cases and ensure accountability in tracking and responding to court proceedings, the court observed and posted the matter for compliance to August 29.
