Hyderabad, December 17: To facilitate transparency and speed in police service delivery, Telangana has started Inter-operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) integrated with the Crime and Criminals Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) project. With this, Telangana has become the first state in the country to implement such a system.

Under this CCTNS project, integration of e-courts, e-prisons, databases, forensics, prosecution, juvenile homes and a nationwide fingerprint database of criminals will be done. The whole process involves close co-ordination where access to the judiciary, police and prisons can be achieved through a desktop dashboard to aid investigations expeditiously. Close sources say that the primary aim of the project is to save time and miscoordination between police stations and courts. Supreme Court Allows Live Streaming of Certain Court Proceedings. 

According to the information, the Ministry of Home Affairs had selected Telangana as the first state in the country to implement this project, and Warangal’s Subedari Police Station is the first one to exchange live digital data. Supreme Court Judge Madan B Lokur – Chairman of ICJS and Judge-In-State committee – had launched this project through video conference on Saturday.

With this, all the information pertaining to charge sheets, CC numbers, warrants, summons, FIRs, etc. will be electronically communicated to the court in real time in the same manner. The Subedari Police Station also received an acknowledgement from the court with the reference number online. However, full-fledged implementation will soon be launched.

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