Allahabad HCBA wrote a letter addressed to Chief Justice Govind Mathur, seeking clarification of the nature of “urgent matters” and whether all bail/ anticipatory bail applications would alone be treated as urgent for enabling e-filing.
Queries related to nature of urgent matters in civil cases were also sought involving the categorization of the urgent matters.
The letter asked about the filing of vakalatnama and the modes and methods on which the E-filing notice is silent.
The letter stated “The necessity of filing vakalatnama and swearing of affidavit at Allahabad would make whole system illusory in this period of lockdown when all movements are restricted. Furthermore, in case a client or pairokar can come to Allahabad in violation of the lockdown, the lawyers and clerks would be subjected to exposure to infection of Covid 19 on account of physical interaction which would defeat the purpose of the system,” the letter states. Adhaar e-sign would obviate the necessity of filing affidavits as also digital signatures and secure the physical well being of Advocate and their clerks by eliminating physical interaction.”
The letter also urged for not passing any adverse order against lawyers in case they default in following the procedure and urged for normal filing for a period of one month to pace with technology amendments required for E filing
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