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Sh. Talwant Singh ( D  & SJ )

 

Addl. District & Sessions Judge, Delhi

Date of Birth : 4th June, 1961

Education : M.Com, LL.B., Adv. Diploma in Management.

Technical Courses : 1. Computer Course from Computer Society of India in 1984.

  1. Cyber Law Course from National Judicial Academy in 2004.
  2. Cyber Forensics Course from CERT, New Delhi in 2007.

Experience : 1. Practiced as an Advocate from 11th Oct. 1986 to 25th May, 2000.

  1. Working as Addl. Distt. & Sessions Judge since 26th May, 2000.
  2. Presently posted in Delhi School Tribunal as Presiding Officer.

Present Posting : Presiding Officer: Delhi School Tribunal

PO: State Transport Appellate Tribunal

Activities:

  1. Actively involved in the execution of following projects:
  2. As Chairman of District Courts Website Committee & member of Central Computer Committee,

undertook computerisation of about 300 Courts in Delhi District in record time of 2 years.

  1. As member of Software Development Team, involved in development, testing and

implementation of District Courts Management Information System (DC-MIS) in collaboration

with NIC, Ministry of IT, Govt. of India.

  1. Training of about 3,500 staff members & 300 Judges in using Computers & Customized

Software.

  1. High Court of Delhi had assigned the work of revamping the office of Official Liquidator and

making its working transparent and on-line in 2008.

  1. Appointed Nodal Officer of India’s First Paperless E-Courts project in Delhi being implemented

by High Court of Delhi, C-DAC and Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India which will

be operational in early 2010.

  1. Websites conceptualized, designed & launched:
  2. Delhi District Courts: www.delhicourts.nic.in launched in 2004.
  3. Delhi Judicial Academy: www.judicialacademy.nic.in in 2006.
  4. Delhi Legal Services Authority: www.dlsa.gov.in in 2007.
  5. Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee: www.dhclsc.com in 2008.
  6. Official Liquidator, Delhi: www.delhiol.com in 2009.
  7. Delivered Lectures on Computerisation of Courts and Cyber Law at:
  8. National Judicial Academy at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
  9. Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
  10. Delhi Judicial Academy, New Delhi.
  11. NASSCOM Seminars on Cyber Security in Delhi & Hyderabad.
  12. Indian Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, New Delhi.  6. Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy at Hyderabad
  13. Annual Conferences of Computer Society of India in New Delhi.
  14. CBI Officers Conference on Cyber Law at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi in March, 2009.
  15. International Conference of Jurists at London in June, 2009.
  16. Bangalore Cyber Security Summit in October, 2009.
  17. Participation in Conferences & Workshops:
  18. Presented Paper on “ICT in Delhi District Courts” in Law via the Internet Conference at Port

Vila, Vanuatu (South Pacific) in November, 2005.

  1. Presented Paper on “Computerisation of District Courts” in Conflux-2005 Conference in

Delhi.

  1. Panelist in DQ e-Gov Summit ’06 where National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) was finalised.
  2. Participated as Technical Expert in All Africa Conference of Judges at Arusha, Tanzania

and presented a paper on the theme of ‘Use of ICT in Commercial Courts’ in September,

2007.

  1. Presented Paper on Medico-Legal Informatics at All India Forensic Conference at Amritsar,

Punjab in March, 2007.

  1. Presented a paper on Judicial E-Libraries at Annual Conference of International Association

of Law Libraries held at Mumbai in Dec. 2007.

  1. Presented a paper on Cyber Law & Justice in Conference of SAARC Countries in New Delhi

organized by IIT Allahabad in May, 2008.

  1. Made presentation on ICT in Justice Delivery System in International Council of Jurists

Conference in London, UK in June, 2009.

  1. Made presentation on ITA 2008: Law Enforcement & Incident Response -The way

forward- in October, 2009.

  1. Countries visited to study use of Information Technology in Courts:
  2. Australia 5. Malaysia
  3. Singapore 6. United Kingdom
  4. Vanuatu 7. Tanzania
  5. Kenya 8. Dubai
  6. Books & Articles Published:
  7. District Courts Case Management Manual for Judges in the year 2005.
  8. District Courts User’s Manual for Lawyers & Litigants in the year 2006.
  9. Annual Reports of Delhi District Courts from 2003 to 2008.
  10. Article on “ICT in Delhi District Courts” published in a book on Electronic Judicial Resource

Management published by Macmillan India.

  1. Article on “Cyber Law & Information Technology” published in E-Journal of Delhi District

Courts.

  1. Contact Address:

Talwant Singh

Addl. Distt. & Sessions Judge

Duplex Flat No.4,

Residential Block,

Karkardooma Courts,

Delhi (East) – 110032

India

Phone: +91 11 2230 8998

Mobile: +91 9901384653

E-Mail: talwantsingh@gmail.com

Skype: talwant