By Sakshi Garg Assistant Manager 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Introduction to AIR Supreme Court/ High Court or the respective CD-ROM Software Sakshi Garg By Sakshi Garg Assistant Manager

Introduction AIR Supreme court/ High court or the respective CD-ROM software is introduced by AIR Infotech, a concern of All India Reporter Pvt. Ltd. How to Access: Campus wide limited access 4 concerned user license To connect the database, contact help desk for "dongle" Content: AIR Supreme Court Software (1950- till March’ 2013)- contains more than 36,000 judgments AIR High Court Software (1950- till March’ 2013)- contains more than 86,000 judgments AIR Criminal Law Journal Software (1950- till March’ 2013)- contains more than 44,000 judgments AIR Supreme Court Weekly Software (1991- till March’ 2013) Bare Acts - Constitution of India, Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (act no. 2 of 1974), Evidence Act (1 of 1872), and Penal Code (45 of 1860) 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

AIR Multiple Infobase software’s Homepage Press [Ctrl+Tab] or Click “Index” to select required database AIR Criminal Law Journal Database 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Bare Acts Sakshi Garg AIR Supreme Court Database AIR High Court Database AIR Supreme Court Weekly Database

Familiarity with the interface Previous Judgment [Shift + F5] Next Judgment [F5] Go Forward [Shift + F6] Go Back [F6] 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg Previous Hit [Shift+F4] Next Hit [F4]

How to print Open the case & click on print tab (Ctrl+P) How to print Open the case & click on print tab (Ctrl+P). Select section option and the case and then ok 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Print [Ctrl + P] Sakshi Garg

Features & Search Options 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Indices Nominal Index Subject Index Topical Index Judge Index Remarks Index Additional Tools Sakshi Garg

Nominal Index Search cases by the name of the petitioner e. g Nominal Index Search cases by the name of the petitioner e.g. looking for “A. B. Abdul Kadir v. State of Kerala” (AIR1976SC182) judgment, go to “A” alphabet > “Aa” letter (all cases starts from A. or AA letter, searchable easily) 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Subject Index Search by subject e. g Subject Index Search by subject e.g. looking for “Penal Code (45 of 1860) and Section 100”, go to “P” alphabet > “Pe” letter > click on + sign, to go to particular section like s.100 for section 100 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Topical Index Search cases by a topic e. g Topical Index Search cases by a topic e.g. looking for “Death Sentence”, go to “D” alphabet > “De” letter > (all cases related to the topic are searchable easily) 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Judge Index Search judgments delivered by a judge e. g Judge Index Search judgments delivered by a judge e.g. Hon’ble justice S.C. Sen, go to “S” alphabet > “Sa” letter > (all judgments delivered by the judge are searchable easily) 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Remarks Index Cases fetch by following remarks: Overruled No Longer Good Law Per Incuriam (ignores statutory provision and therefore wrong decision made) Dissented (disagreed) Reversed Followed Relied Followed by other journals 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Additional Tools Forms & Pleading Comparative chart- for CPC and CrPC Comparative chart of provisions, code of civil procedure Comparative table of tables, code of criminal procedure HC Equivalent Citation for other journals Criminal Law Journal Equivalent Citation for other journals SC Equivalent Citation for other journals 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

10 Different Types of Searches Head Note Page No. Any Condition Cases Referred Judgment Free Text Relevancy Nominal Date of Decision Advanced Query 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Head Note Search by Statute name (laws/ acts) e. g Head Note Search by Statute name (laws/ acts) e.g. Penal Code 45 of 1860, Provision/ article/ section/ rule/ order e.g. art.19/ s.34/ r.10/ o.1 , Main topic e.g. murder, Keywords e.g. eye witness and click on “Apply to All”. 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Search within search In HEADNOTE search, enter any topic in MAIN TOPIC field e.g. “Judicial Service” and no. of result found in PARTITION WITH HITS BOX. To filter search result, enter topic in KEYWORDS field e.g. “Appointment of High Court Judge” 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Any Condition A Multiple-Combination Search of Statute & Provision/Judge/Nominal/Bench Strength/Date of Decision/Topic-Free Text. e.g. search judgment delivered by six judges bench strength on topic “Murder” & 4 judgments are shown as result. 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Cases Referred Search cases in which given citation [citation format/ nominal] are referred. ex. of Citation format: 2003 1 SCC 228 ex. of nominal citation: Kesavananda Bharati 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Judgment Search Search single/ multiple terms or phrase (in inverted commas) in a judgment e.g. "equality before law" "right to life" 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Free-text Search Search any term or phrase in entire text i. e Free-text Search Search any term or phrase in entire text i.e. headnotes & judgement. E.g. to search admissions in medical college, search cases by “"admission medical college%" @6” where % search for colleges and @6 means search max. 6 words in b/w given words. 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Relevancy Search Search cases of their relevancy e. g Relevancy Search Search cases of their relevancy e.g. "culpable homicide" ^murder [ ^ indicates “culpable homicide” but not murder] e.g. “Life imprisonment” | “Death sentence” [ | indicates EITHER Life imprisonment OR Death sentence] 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

Nominal Search ANY NOMINAL: Enter any one party name NOMINAL INDEX: if know both parties name e.g. Maneka Gandhi v Union of India Use wild card operator (* for multi-character,? For single character) if not sure of nominal’s spelling e.g. ag*wal, organi?ation 2/18/2019 2:52 PM2/18/2019 2:52 PM Sakshi Garg

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