India, Aug. 20 -- The Delhi high court on Wednesday observed that permitting name-based searches across legal databases and domains for court records is in the public interest, and that disabling such searches would pose a "herculean" challenge.

A bench of justices C Hari Shankar and Vinod Kumar said that restricting searches to case-specific details alone would make it difficult for users to locate and access judgments.

"If you access the judgement by going into the subject involved, it is a herculean effort to do that. It is not even remotely a substitute to remove the name (based search). With the writ petition number, case details, you will never be able to access any judgment. If the single judge says that one of the considerations...