HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR E-FILING

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS FOR E-FILING 

The e-committee of supreme court of india had designed and set up efiling System which enables electronic filing of legal papers (“e-filing”). Using the e-filing, cases (both civil and criminal) can be filed before all high courts and district courts that adopt this e-filing system. Introduction of this e-fiing system is aimed at promoting paperless filing & create time and cost saving efficiencies by adopting technological solution to file cases before various courtsinIndia.
This User Manual is for enabling the users to understand the step by step process involved in e-filing, to facilitate use of e-filing system and offer support to users. The e-filing system can be used by any Advocate enrolled to practice in the Bar Council of any State in India or by any Petitioner in Person to file cases before the High court and District Courts of States that adopt this e-filing system. The system will also enable the police stations across India to e-file the charge sheets and other documents pertaining to criminal cases. The list of courts that have adopted this e-filing system will be shown to you in the form of drop down list the moment you select any State and District. Before use of e-filing, a user is required to read the User
Manual carefully and abide by its terms and follow its step by step guidance.
A User must have a private computer running a Linux or Windows or Macintosh, internet access, an internet browser like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, Adobe Acrobat Reader 11 software and a scanner to scan documents for e-filing. Documents in only PDF format will be accepted for e-filing. Adobe Acrobat reader is out there at no charge from Adobe by downloadat thesubsequent address:
www.adobe.com/products/reader. PDF documents also can be created by scanning hard copies of documents. When paper documents are scanned, the resolution must be set to 200 dpi. Currently the maximum size a document can be uploaded is 25 MB per document page for a doc or docx format.