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CHENNAI: Madras High Court which is in the midst of computerization of its courts, proposes to introduce e-filing from January.

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Disclosing this at a workshop on `Digital signatures and cyber crimes - technological and legal issues', jointly organized by the Indian Society of Criminology (ISC) and the Information Security and Cyber Crime Research Foundation (ISCCRF), in Chennai, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, A P Shah said that computerization of the courts was slow, but steady.

“We are many many years behind. I hope that the networking of all courts in Tamil Nadu would be completed in the next couple of years,” he said.

In his keynote address, Shah said that though a digital signature was a powerful tool the concept has still not been widely accepted in the country. “It has been difficult for us to move it from theory to reality because of cultural resistance, unequal access to technology, and lack of adequate legal and service infrastructure to support such a major shift,” he said.

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Stating that paper-based documents were still considered to be trustworthy than electronic ones, as they are tangible, Shah added: “Digital signatures, if properly implemented and utilized, offer promising solutions to problems posed by imposters and message integrity by minimizing the risk of undetected message tampering and forgery.”

Earlier, delivering his address after inaugurating the workshop, EM Sudarsana Natchiappan, MP and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Law and Justice, said the Information Technology Act had been drafted after a comparative study of laws in other countries.

The two-day workshop has been organized to deliberate on various topics including digital signatures technology, standards and applications, legal perspectives, and cyber crimes involving digital signatures.

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