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.
- Cyber Law Course from National Judicial Academy in 2004.
- Cyber Forensics Course from CERT, New Delhi in 2007.
Experience : 1. Practiced as an Advocate from 11th Oct. 1986 to 25th May, 2000.
- Working as Addl. Distt. & Sessions Judge since 26th May, 2000.
- Presently posted in Delhi School Tribunal as Presiding Officer.
Present Posting : Presiding Officer: Delhi School Tribunal
PO: State Transport Appellate Tribunal
Activities:
- Actively involved in the execution of following projects:
- 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.
- 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.
- Training of about 3,500 staff members & 300 Judges in using Computers & Customized
Software.
- 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.
- 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.
- Websites conceptualized, designed & launched:
- Delhi District Courts: www.delhicourts.nic.in launched in 2004.
- Delhi Judicial Academy: www.judicialacademy.nic.in in 2006.
- Delhi Legal Services Authority: www.dlsa.gov.in in 2007.
- Delhi High Court Legal Services Committee: www.dhclsc.com in 2008.
- Official Liquidator, Delhi: www.delhiol.com in 2009.
- Delivered Lectures on Computerisation of Courts and Cyber Law at:
- National Judicial Academy at Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
- Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh.
- Delhi Judicial Academy, New Delhi.
- NASSCOM Seminars on Cyber Security in Delhi & Hyderabad.
- Indian Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers, New Delhi. 6. Andhra Pradesh Judicial Academy at Hyderabad
- Annual Conferences of Computer Society of India in New Delhi.
- CBI Officers Conference on Cyber Law at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi in March, 2009.
- International Conference of Jurists at London in June, 2009.
- Bangalore Cyber Security Summit in October, 2009.
- Participation in Conferences & Workshops:
- Presented Paper on “ICT in Delhi District Courts” in Law via the Internet Conference at Port
Vila, Vanuatu (South Pacific) in November, 2005.
- Presented Paper on “Computerisation of District Courts” in Conflux-2005 Conference in
Delhi.
- Panelist in DQ e-Gov Summit ’06 where National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) was finalised.
- 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.
- Presented Paper on Medico-Legal Informatics at All India Forensic Conference at Amritsar,
Punjab in March, 2007.
- Presented a paper on Judicial E-Libraries at Annual Conference of International Association
of Law Libraries held at Mumbai in Dec. 2007.
- Presented a paper on Cyber Law & Justice in Conference of SAARC Countries in New Delhi
organized by IIT Allahabad in May, 2008.
- Made presentation on ICT in Justice Delivery System in International Council of Jurists
Conference in London, UK in June, 2009.
- Made presentation on ITA 2008: Law Enforcement & Incident Response -The way
forward- in October, 2009.
- Countries visited to study use of Information Technology in Courts:
- Australia 5. Malaysia
- Singapore 6. United Kingdom
- Vanuatu 7. Tanzania
- Kenya 8. Dubai
- Books & Articles Published:
- District Courts Case Management Manual for Judges in the year 2005.
- District Courts User’s Manual for Lawyers & Litigants in the year 2006.
- Annual Reports of Delhi District Courts from 2003 to 2008.
- Article on “ICT in Delhi District Courts” published in a book on Electronic Judicial Resource
Management published by Macmillan India.
- Article on “Cyber Law & Information Technology” published in E-Journal of Delhi District
Courts.
- 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