New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- In an increasingly paperless judiciary where a filing can depend on a password arriving on a phone, the Supreme Court has made clear that a missing one-time password (OTP) cannot, by itself, mean a missing remedy. The Supreme Court has ruled that failed OTP deliveries cannot become a court's excuse to shut the door on a litigant, underlining that a technical failure in a judicial e-filing system cannot be used to defeat a bona fide litigant on limitation. In a judgment that places the responsibility for increasingly digitised courts squarely on the institutions running them, a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said that a litigant cannot be made to suffer when a court or tribunal's own system is incapabl...