Telangana: Videoconferencing facility goes mobile for lawyers in Warangal

HYDERABAD: The Telangana high court that is far ahead of many high courts, probably the front runner, in running digital courts in the country, has gone one step ahead and launched a mobile videoconferencing district court facility and started taking the technology to the door steps of those lawyers who cannot afford to have computers and internet in their homes. Under this facility a mobile van will go to the areas of the lawyers and they have to simply get into the van equipped with videoconference system and argue their case.This facility, introduced at Warangal for the first time in the country, was inaugurated by high court Chief Justice Raghvendra Singh Chauhan and Justice P Naveen Rao on Monday through online mode. At Warangal, principal district judge K Jaya Kumar and district collector who provided this van were present when the facility was inaugurated.
It can be recalled the courts,including the high court, have gone virtual and were holding courts through videoconferencing mode ever since lockdown was announced three months ago. For those lawyers who are not tech savvy, separate computer rooms were allotted at state judicial academy to come and argue their cases before high court. In fact Telangana high court is the sole high court where all its judges have been holding videoconference courts. Online filling of cases was allowed and courts functioning picked up pace. Now district judiciary too is going digital. If the experiment at Warangal is successful then we will ask all the district collectors to provide vans with computers to provide virtual argument space for lawyers at their door steps if they are unable to equip themselves at their homes on their own, Registrar General A Venkateswar Reddy said.