Virtual hearing and online documentation to ease work for litigants and lawyers

The state charity commissioner’s office will make all hearing details available to users at the click of a mouse after the commissioner ordered mandatory registration of email and mobile number of lawyers and trustees who filed their petitions with the commissionerate

The state charity commissioner’s office will make all hearing details available to users at the click of a mouse after the commissioner ordered mandatory registration of email and mobile number of lawyers and trustees who filed their petitions with the commissionerate.

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The charity commissioner has asked all the regional commissioners to implement the order wherein the assistant charity commissioners have been instructed to look after the implementation of the department’s Government Resolution (GR).

Users across the state will be able to witness the proceedings on the dashboard of the commissioner’s website. All the litigants will have to mandatorily fill the details of their trust and submit all the bonafide documents online for easier access to information and action.

The regional commissionerates have been instructed to upload all the files and data through online data entry and a compliance report must be sent to head office.

Advocate Shivraj Kadam Jahagirdar, trustee of public trust practitioners association, Pune informed that the Supreme Court had recently granted permission for sending summons on whatsapp and email.

The benefits of information revolution must be availed by one and all.

The litigants and lawyers can obtain information at the click of a mouse and it brings more transparency and accountability. Virtual hearing will solve travelling and expenses borne the litigants and lawyers, he said.

Charity commissioners regulate and make better provision for the administration of public religious and charitable trusts in the state of Maharashtra where according to the act, it is expedient to regulate and to make better provision for the administration of public religious and charitable trusts in the state.