Software to track cases in courts

MUMBAI: A day after the director general of police announced the launching special Investigating Units at all police stations and districts, the Mumbai police in its efforts to keep a track of each development in the important cases and to get sure conviction have come up with a unique method to tracking criminal cases in the courts.
The city crime branch have launched a software called the Court Case Monitoring System (CCMS), which will have data of all cases from the date of the crime to trial stage and will send automated reminders to concerned officers across the city about upcoming court appearances, depositions and other developments in the trial.At one click it system will show who is the Investigating officer, which is the next day, who is appearing for the accused and weightage of evidence.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Atulchandra Kulkarni said on Thursday that the software would do the same job that pairavi officers were currently doing. "We already have a pairavi unit of 20 personnel, and the same team will be pressed into service, entering the data into the software and managing it thereafter. We had approached the state government with the proposal, and they accepted it," said Kulkarni.
Officials said that the move is aimed at better monitoring, or 'pairavi' of cases going on in court, which will further help improve the conviction rate in the city. Currently, every police station has a pairavi officer to monitor court cases
Kulkarni added that once operational, the software data of all cases which are being tried in all of the courts in Mumbai would be entered in the software's database, and it would then be updated with data about fresh cases as soon as a chargesheet was filed in a case. "The software will then send out reminders about upcoming developments in the case to the investigating officer as well as his superiors, directly to their cell phones," Kulkarni said.
The Crime Branch is expecting the funds for the project to be released in around ten days, and the software is expected to be operational in a month's time, said officials.