Prevelance of cases registrations under section 66A of the IT Act
About the dataset:
Process to fetch data from ecourts:
Users can search for the cases registered under a particular section on the eCourts portal. Though this is a helpful feature, we must say that the lack of standardisation practices leads to a cases being tagged under completely different sections, or if the case is tagged correctly, the tags themselves are not standardised.
To mitigate the above discrepancies, we followed a slightly different route:
Few important stats (As per ecourts):
About case registrations
Section 66A was declared uncontitutional by the Supreme Court on March 24, 2015. There are a lot of stories on the internet about this landmark decision taken by the Supreme Court, but we still see a lot of cases being registered under this zombie section of the IT act.
To know more about 66A, its history and what are we doing about this now, please refer to this reading list from our partner organisations:
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Data Dictionary
| Column Name | Description |
|---|---|
Case filing date |
Filing date for a case |
Case ID |
CIN number - This is a unique ID generated for every case |
Case registration date |
Case was registered on this date |
Case registration year |
Case was registered in this year |
Case Type |
Type of case aka case category |
State Code |
State Code under which the case was filed |
State |
Name of the parent state |
District Code |
District Code under which the case was filed |
District |
Name of the parent district |
Order status |
Flag to check the availability of a PDF file for a case |
Case details |
Link to view case details |