Supreme Court's Diamond Jubilee: CJI DY Chandrachud Presides Over Ceremonial Bench

Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud presided over the proceedings of the Supreme Court's Diamond Jubilee on Sunday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi also attended the Diamond Jubilee celebration.

Unveiling the 75th year of the Supreme Court, Prime Minister launched citizen-centric information and technology initiatives that include Digital Supreme Court Reports (Digi SCR), Digital Courts 2.0 and new website of the Supreme Court. He will also address the gathering on the occasion.

The Digital Supreme Court Reports (SCR) will make Supreme Court judgments available to the citizens of the country free of cost and in electronic format. The key features of digital SCR are that all 519 volumes of the Supreme Court reports since 1950, covering 36,308 cases, shall be available in a digital format, bookmarked, user friendly and with open access.

Digital Courts 2.0 application is a recent initiative under the e-Courts project to make court records available to the Judges of the district courts in the electronic form. This is coupled with use of artificial intelligence (AI) for transcribing speech-to-text on a real time basis.

Prime Minister also launched the new website of the Supreme Court. The new website is in bilingual format, in English and Hindi, and has been redesigned with a user-friendly interface.