The Allahabad High Court has directed the Director General of Police (DGP) to issue necessary orders to ensure that instructions in bail and other criminal matters are sent to High Court electronically via mail rather than manually.

The Bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal, while considering a Bail Application, pointed out that under the current manual system, there are significant delays in receiving instructions from Police Stations in Criminal matters.

The Applicant was represented by Advocate Saurabh Pandey, while the Respondent was represented by Government Advocate Akhilesh Kumar Yadav.

The Additional Government Advocate had submitted that Notice was received on 10th November, 2015, however, no instruction could be obtained from the concerned Police Station till date.

The Court thus inquired about "the process of obtaining instruction" and was apprised that as soon as Notice of Bail is received in the office of Government Advocate, the copy of Bail Application along with details of case including Police Station is handed over to the concerned Pairokar of the District Police, who use to come at office of the Government Advocate every day to collect the Notice of Bail.

Thereafter, the "Pairokar" submits the Bail Notice along with details of case at concerned District Police Office/S.P., Office, where District Police Office/S.P. Office further distributes the Bail Notice to different Police Stations and then the concerned I.O. obtains a copy of case diary from the concerned court if the charge sheet has been filed. If charge sheet is not filed, then I.O. himself gets the photocopy prepared from original case diary and also prepares the comment, including the DCRB report and the same is again sent to the High Court through Pairokar.

The Court noted that considerable time is being taken in obtaining the instructions and entire process including handing over the bail notice as well as obtaining the instruction is being completed manually which takes considerable time though, the matter of bail relates to liberty of a person and as on date considering the technological advancement, this time can be reduced considerably by using the appropriate technology.

"This Court is aware that, as on date, ICJS system has been implemented not only in the U.P. but in the entire Country, where direct access has been given to different stake holders to consume data available on respective portal. At present, District Court can access the CCTNS portal to obtain FIR, Case Diary and Charge sheet. However despite the implementation of ICJS, District Court has no access to DCRB or SCRB to obtain the criminal history of the accused. This Court is of the view that if the access is given to the office of Government Advocate, High Court Allahabad and Lucknow through ICJS to directly access to police portal as well as DCRB or SCRB then the case diary already available on police portal as well as criminal history on DCRB, can be directly obtained by office of the Government Advocate within few hours though at present it takes more than two weeks to obtain the required material from concerned police station......The Instructions, in a bail, can be obtained from concerned I.O. through e-mail after transmitting the bail notice to the concerned S.P. Office or concerned police station. This fact is required to be considered at higher level by the police department and also by NIC", the Court observed.

It laid emphasis on the "urgent requirement to expedite the implementation of ICJS project" and stated that with its aid, the metadata of the FIR and the charge sheet can be accessed by all the High Courts and subordinate courts.

"....Documents like F.I.R. and case diary and charge sheet are uploaded by the police in PDF format for utilization by the courts. ICJS has been established to make justice delivery system more effective by integrating main pillars of criminal justice, i.e., the police (CCTNS), courts (e-courts), jails (e-prisons), forensic lab (e-forensic) and prosecution (e-prosecution). This process would require data to be entered into system only once (One Data One Entry) and various data bases available could be used for criminal investigation in a joint manner", the Court noted.

The Application was listed for December 18, 2025.

Cause Title: Ratvar Singh v. State of U.P.

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Allahabad High CourtJustice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal

Sheetal Joon