The Karnataka High Court has launched a facility for reserving/booking time slots for carrying out physical filing of fresh cases, intervention applications, etc.
The booking facility can also be utilized to pay the court fee and to file applications for copying.
The application is called ‘Physical Filing – Online Appointment’. It can be accessed here.
The notification issued by the Registrar (Judicial) K S Bharath Kumar states that the new facility will be available at the Principal Bench of the High Court at Bengaluru.
Further, the notification states,
"Now, since the easy facility is made available for seeking appointment for physical filing, there is no necessity of sending email to hck-filing@hck.gov.in for seeking appointment."
The notification also urges advocates and litigants to make use of the new facility.
Sources have confirmed to Bar & Bench that the new application was developed by the High Court’s in-house technical team within a span of seven days, in order to overcome the restrictions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Read notification here]