The High Court of Karnataka will restart on a pilot basis its proceedings through videoconference (VC) mode from December 11 with a new set of guidelines using the online user-verified login system to prevent entry of unauthorised persons to the VC.
Played on two days
The VC facility was stopped on December 5 after unidentified miscreants illegally logged into around six court halls through VC and played porn video clips during the live court proceedings on December 4 afternoon and December 5 morning.
The court’s Computers Wing had lodged a first information report (FIR) with the Cyber, Economics and Narcotics (CEN) police station in this regard by providing internet protocol IDs of the systems used by the miscreants to gain entry to the VC through the Zoom platform. The miscreants had illegally used login IDs and passwords of different court halls provided on the High Court’s website only for the use of authorised participants, the advocates and the litigant/party-in-persons litigants, to join the court proceedings.
New guidelines
The new guidelines, issued on Saturday by the Courts’ Registrar (Computers), state that all the advocates, party-in-persons/litigants, and media persons should get themselves compulsorily registered on the Zoom platform as a one-time measure by sign-up procedure.
Before registering in the Zoom platform by sign-up procedure, each advocate, party-in-person, litigant, and government departments should mandatorily register in the High Court’s Online Digital Case Diary (ODCD) portal by visiting the URL: https://karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in/advreg.
The email IDs furnished while registering in the ODCD portal should be the email IDs to be used for sign-up/login in the Zoom VC platform, the new guidelines state.
Data verified
Meanwhile, the Computers Wing on Saturday successfully verified the email IDs of nearly 10,000 advocates who have been already registered on the ODCD portal, along with their registration data of the Karnataka State Bar Council, said N.G. Dinesh, Registrar (Computers).
Advocates, who have not registered with the ODCD platform cannot join the VC even if they have the Zoom login ID; and the court will verify the data of the advocates who will newly register in the ODCD, including their email IDs, before allowing them to join the VC, he said.
All those advocates, party-in-persons, litigants, and government departments who have already registered in the ODCD portal should use the same email IDs provided in the portal to sign-up/login for the Zoom platform for signup/login, as per the guidelines.
From abroad
The guidelines also specified how the participant advocates, party-in-persons, and litigants shall put their participant names in the order of list number, case number, and name (For example: List-1, WP 245/2003, Gunjan).
As per the guidelines, the participants from outside India, should in advance send an email to the Registrar (Judicial) at regjudicial@hck.gov.in requesting for permission to join the VC.
