Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday, 22 June 2026 described the e-Prosecution app 2.0 as a transformative digital bridge connecting investigating agencies, prosecution wings and the judicial system, saying the platform would help deliver justice within the timelines mandated by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).

Context

In his post, Shah called e-Prosecution 2.0 'the new information highway connecting the investigating agencies, prosecution, and judicial system.' He said the app would 'cut down the time required for identification of criminals, e-evidence integration' and enable 'monitoring of timelines to deliver prompt and perfect justice.' The remarks signal the central government's intent to operationalise the time-bound justice framework written into the BNSS.

The BNSS — along with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) — replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Indian Evidence Act respectively. All three laws were enacted in December 2023 and came into force on 1 July 2024. The BNSS introduced fixed timelines for investigation, charge-sheet filing and trial completion — timelines that digital infrastructure such as e-Prosecution 2.0 is now expected to enforce in practice.

Policy Backdrop

The e-Prosecution platform is part of a wider ecosystem of criminal-justice digitisation that traces its roots to the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), launched in 2009, which created the national crime and criminal database. Subsequent initiatives — including e-Courts and the Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System (ICJS) — built layers of connectivity between police stations, courts and prisons. e-Prosecution 2.0 is positioned as the latest and most integrated layer in this stack.

The broader push sits under the Digital India umbrella and reflects successive administrations' recognition that India's court backlog — millions of cases pending at various stages — cannot be addressed through procedural reform alone. Seamless data flow between investigation and prosecution is seen as essential to converting legislative timelines into measurable outcomes on the ground.

Stakeholders and Impact

Police forces across states stand to benefit from faster digital evidence submission, reducing delays caused by physical documentation and manual handoffs. Public prosecutors gain real-time visibility into investigation progress, allowing them to prepare cases without waiting for paper records. Judicial officers can monitor case timelines and flag overruns, creating accountability at each stage of the criminal justice chain.

The platform's emphasis on 'seamless data streaming,' as described by Shah, also addresses a long-standing challenge: the fragmentation of records between state police systems and central databases. By integrating e-evidence — digital forensics, CCTV footage, call-detail records — directly into the prosecution workflow, e-Prosecution 2.0 aims to reduce adjournments caused by missing or late-filed evidence.

What's Next

Attention will now turn to the state-wise rollout status of e-Prosecution 2.0, as criminal justice is a concurrent subject and implementation depends heavily on state police and prosecution departments adopting the platform uniformly. Any mid-term review of BNSS-mandated disposal timelines — potentially tabled in Parliament's winter session — will be an early indicator of whether the digital infrastructure is translating into measurable reductions in case pendency.

If the integration delivers on its stated promise, it could set a template for further convergence between law-enforcement databases and the judiciary, accelerating India's transition to a fully digital criminal justice ecosystem.