national judicial reference system (njrs) in income tax dept

- Soft launched on 19th March 2015 to improve Litigation Management-Being implemented by DGIT (Legal & Research), New Delhi

NJRS –Income Tax Department National Judicial Reference System

What is NJRS?

• Repository of all judgments and appeals at ITATs, High Courts and Supreme Court.

• Search facilities for finding appeals and relevant judgments

• Work flows for officers of the department engaged in litigation work

• To carry out research & analysis on various issues. • The NJRS repository currently has records for over

2.5 lakh appeals filed and 1.45 lakh orders

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How to use NJRS?

• It can be accessed through the employee Id as User Id at https://www.njrs-itd.gov.in/NJRS/

• Password can be obtained by sending an email to NJRS-user@nsdl.co.in with the subject line of the email as ‘Register’ through their name-based official email ids (Name@incometax.gov.in)

• You can login with this password and change the password

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What does NJRS contain presently?• Judgments- 1,45,000 Judgments of ITAT incl. over

50,000 cases with summaries (Now 1,50,317)• Appeals –• Data of about 2.25 lakh appeals of ITAT. These

include all appeals that were filed after 1st April 2009 as per the ITAT computer system

• Data of 4,000+ appeals of Andhra Pradesh HC• Data of 10,000+ appeals of provided by the SC• Now till date 3,84,786 appeals are available in

NJRS• 1472 ITD Users have logged in NJRS 4 of 7

What will NJRS provide finally?• Facility to view the appeal documents being

scanned at the Regional Scanning Centres (RSCs)• Dashboard for display of jurisdiction specific

information about cases in various courts.• Provision for case specific communication

between officers engaged in assessment work and those engaged in litigation work

• Alerts for users about new messages received from other users.

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What will NJRS provide finally?

• Calendar for display of cases fixed in the various courts on any particular date

• Facility to carry out research & prepare case notes.

• Facility to enter and maintain a case diary for day to day case proceedings.

• Functionality to identify related cases for bunching of appeals

• Facility to mark appeals for priority attention6 of 7

What will NJRS provide finally?

• Facility for data analysis and generation of reports

• Facility for users to upload articles on litigation issues

• Facility for uploading the finalized CSRs• Facility for High Court Cells to maintain record of

appeals allocated to standing counsels.• Facility to the DGIT (L & R) office for online

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