Punjab issues order to acknowledge summons through e-mails

Financial commissioners, principal secretaries and administrative secretaries have been issued orders to update e-mail accounts of their respective departments and forwarded it to the office of Advocate General of Punjab.

These e-mail IDs would be forwarded to the Registrar General, Punjab and Haryana High Court, which was in the process of sending notices and summons through e-mails, an official spokesperson said.

He said all department heads have also been instructed to issue directions to nodal officers of their respective departments to regularly check their e-mail accounts and acknowledge court notices for speedy delivery of justice and in case there was any change, it must be intimated to the court immediately.

 

He said court notices would be served through e-mail with effect from July 2.