1 BY SAKSHI GARG ASSISTANT MANAGER Sakshi Garg

1 BY SAKSHI GARG ASSISTANT MANAGER Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM Introduction to AIR Supreme Court/ High Court or the respective CDROM Software

Introduction 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) Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM AIR Supreme court/ High court or the respective CD-ROM software is introduced by AIR Infotech, a concern of All India Reporter Pvt. Ltd. 2

AIR Multiple Infobase software’s Homepage Press [Ctrl+Tab] or Click “Index” to select required database 3 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM AIR Criminal Law Journal Database Bare Acts AIR Supreme Court Database AIR High Court Database AIR Supreme Court Weekly Database

Familiarity with the interface Previous Hit [Shift+F 4] Next Hit [F 4] Next Judgment [F 5] Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM Go Back [F 6] Go Forward [Shift + F 6] Previous Judgment [Shift + F 5] 4

How to print Open the case & click on print tab (Ctrl+P). Select section option and the case and then ok 5 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM Print [Ctrl + P]

Features & Search Options Nominal Index Subject Index Topical Index Judge Index Remarks Index Additional Tools Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM Indices 6

Nominal Index Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 50 PM Search cases by the name of the petitioner e. g. looking for “A. B. Abdul Kadir v. State of Kerala” (AIR 1976 SC 182) judgment, go to “A” alphabet > “Aa” letter (all cases starts from A. or AA letter, searchable easily) 7

Subject Index Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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 8

Topical Index Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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) 9

Judge Index Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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) 10

Remarks Index Overruled No Longer Good Law Per Incuriam (ignores statutory provision and therefore wrong decision made) Dissented (disagreed) Reversed Followed Relied Followed by other journals Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM Cases fetch by following remarks: 11

Additional Tools Forms & Pleading Comparative chart- for CPC and Cr. PC 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 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 12

10 Different Types of Searches Head Note Page No. Any Condition Cases Referred Judgment Free Text Relevancy Nominal Date of Decision Advanced Query Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 13

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”. 14 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM

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” 15 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM

Any Condition Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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. 16

Cases Referred 17 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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

Judgment Search Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM Search single/ multiple terms or phrase (in inverted commas) in a judgment e. g. "equality before law" "right to life" 18

Free-text Search 19 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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.

Relevancy Search 20 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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]

Nominal Search 21 Sakshi Garg 9/17/2020 3: 51 PM 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

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