CJI inaugurates Allahabad High Court's IT Centre

Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today inaugurated the "Centre for Information Technology" of Allahabad High Court, where digitisation of court records running into crores of pages will take place.
The structure is spread over an area of 20,000 square feet with the capacity to store about 30 lakh files.
The CJI arrived here this afternoon from Patna and also inaugurated a website dedicated to the year-long celebrations of the sesquicentennial of Allahabad High Court, which will formally commence tomorrow with a function which will be attended, among others, by President Pranab Mukherjee, Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

In addition to the CJI, several judges of the Supreme Court, Chief Justices of several High Courts and a number of retired judges have arrived in the city to take part in tomorrow's function.
Elaborate security arrangements are in place around the sprawling High Court premises where vehicular traffic has been suspended since this morning and the restrictions are likely to remain in place till tomorrow evening.
Hundreds of CCTV cameras have been installed around the court campus where police personnel, assisted by paramilitary forces, are keeping a round-the-clock vigil.

Undeterred by the traffic restrictions and security arrangements, locals have been turning up in large numbers for the past couple of days to catch a glimpse of the glittering illumination that is on display at the High Court every evening.

The highest judicial body of Uttar Pradesh had come into being on March 17, 1866.
Known at that time as the High Court of Judicature for the North-Western Provinces, it was initially set up at Agra from where it was shifted to Allahabad in 1869.
Fifty years later, the nomenclature was altered to High Court of Judicature at Allahabad vide a supplementary Letters Patent dated March 11, 1919.