Shashwati Chowdhury
Published on: July 21 2022 at 16:34 IST
According to Gujarat High Court Chief Justice Aravind Kumar on Wednesday, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and modern technology can assist the judiciary in disposing thousands of cases that are now pending.
The world has evolved and become a global village, according to Kumar, who spoke at the inauguration of the 13th Asian Criminology Conference (ACC) on “Emerging Trends in Technology and its Impact on Law, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy” on the GNLU campus in Gandhinagar on Wednesday.
He also added that, “the citizen have got a counter part called netizens – Artificial intelligence which has advanced to the point where all Supreme Court cases are now translated and listed. The SC constituted an AI committee, and with the National Informatics Center’s (NIC) help, they organised for the translation of nine Indian language into English where a document page is translated in less than 30 seconds with 100 per cent accuracy.”
For example, consider Motor Vehicle (MV) cases, which make up the majority of cases in any court, Kumar added, suggesting a similar usage of AI technology to dispose pending cases. They can be broadly divided into death cases, grevious injuries, simple injuries, and insurance claims.
Take basic injuries as an example, where the healthcare expenses and compensation for disability and loss of livelihood are approximately Rs 1 lakh. In a court, it often takes two to three years to dispose these cases.
“Can we not use an algorithm to ensure that at least 20,000 of these MV cases are disposed in a one year?”
Kumar encouraged GNLU students to ponder over questions around crime enabled by evolving technologies.