As part of the project, around 15,000 judicial officers would be provided with laptops.

“The Supreme Court should transform the present mission into an e-judiciary mission,” Kalam said. The objective of the e-judiciary, he said, would be to ensure seamless flow of information across various units of government, judiciary, institutions and citizens.

“My visualisation of a typical scenario is where the citizen files a case for a civil dispute of a piece of land in the e-court using his or her national ID Card and gets justice within two weeks’ time,” he said.

The e-courts project, to be implemented in three phases over a period of five years, entails setting up digital inter-connectivity between all the courts from the taluka level to the Supreme Court, video-conferencing facilities at the courts, digital archiving and creation of e-filing facility.