Now the prisoners will not have to wait for the hard copy of the bail documents to reach the jail administration. Supreme Court Chief Justice NV Ramana on Thursday launched Fast and Secure Transmission of Electronic Records ( FASTER ) system. Through the FASTER system, the jail authorities will be able to get information about the decisions of the court faster and further action will be possible on it. Chief Justice Ramana virtually launched the FASTER software. The program was attended by the CJI and other judges of the Supreme Court and all the High Court judges.
During this, CJI NV Ramana, while launching the FASTER system, said that a news was published in July, in which some prisoners were not released from jail even after the order of the court. The hearing was started after taking suo motu cognizance of it. The CJI said that the purpose of FASTER is to make the order of the court reach the jail authorities expeditiously.
He said that the purpose of this is to reach the orders passed by the Supreme Court and other High Courts safely without any tampering. We nominated 73 nodal officers at the High Court level and a secure email ID was set up. These nodal officers have a total of 1,887 e-mail IDs, through which the bail orders will be sent to the officers expeditiously and will be digitally signed by the officers. FASTER ensures the confidentiality, safety and security of the order. In the second phase, the physical copy of the order will be circulated.
FASTER: Know why this system was needed?
Till now many such cases have been seen in which the bail orders passed by the court were delayed in reaching the jail, due to which the prisoners could not be released on that day. The prisoner cannot be released on that day when the certified hard copy of the bail orders reach the jail authorities late in the evening. The need of the hour was to bring such a system for speedy transmission of court orders to the jail administration and for effective implementation of Article 21 Right to Life. This system will help in preventing unnecessary arrest and detention of persons who were already granted by the Supreme Court.
