It may have been long in coming, but the Delhi High Court is finally shifting millions of pages in case records to the electronic format.

Faced with shrinking storage space and increasing number of cases, the Delhi High Court began the exercise in September and has since digitised 398,373 judicial files with over 35 million pages. The Supreme Court had digitised all its old records several years ago.

According to its 2007-08 annual report, the high court has on its hands 332,141 cases.