Trial Court Litigants To Now Receive Case Status Emails

Taking a step further in the direction of digitization, the e-Courts programme of the Supreme Court of India added a new facility of sending automated emails to the litigants. As a first step, the trial Courts will now apprise the litigants about the exact status of their case through emails. The email would contain the details of the Court proceeding on the day the case happened and also the next date of hearing. The facility also includes a digital reminder to be sent before the day of hearing. The second step would be extending the facility to all the High Courts.

From now on parties in a suit will have to provide the Courts the email address on which they want to avail this facility. The Plaintiffs will do so while filing a case and Respondents will do it when they appear in the case for the first time. For ongoing cases, the litigants can submit their email addresses to be added to the Court records.