GUJRAT: The project of automation of the district courts will be launched here on Friday (tomorrow), aiming at bringing transparency and to provide the litigants online information regarding cases, verdicts etc.

Official sources said Gujrat would be the first district in Punjab to introduce the system.

District and Sessions Judge Khursheed Anwar Rizvi will inaugurate a facilitation centre for the litigants at the district courts. The officials of district administration and police would attend the ceremony.

With the establishment of the centre, the litigants from across the country as well as those living abroad could get the required information online about their cases and judgments of the courts.

The centre would also offer facilities like online registration of FIRs, computerised judicial record, list of cases on daily basis, medico-legal reports etc.

In the project’s second phase, the biometric verification system would also be installed in collaboration with the district government and National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), an official source said.

Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2016