A list of puns related to "Judiciary of India"
Clearing backlog of cases is the biggest challenge for the Judiciary, and India has the largest number of pending cases in the world!
As of December 2014, over three crore cases are pending in Indian courts:
While some cases have been pending for decades, BBC reported on one trial which has lasted for over a century. The Doshipura court case, which started in 1878, is a dispute between Shia Muslims and Sunnis over two acres of land in Varanasi.
If all the judges attacked their backlog without breaks for eating and sleeping, and closed 100 cases every hour, it would take more than 35 years to catch up, according to Bloomberg Businessweek.
In December 2014, then chief justice of the Supreme Court constituted the social justice bench to hear cases concerning socially marginalized groups. After a little over a year and with a new chief justice in charge, the social justice bench experiment seems to have been shelved, reason being the bench did not deliver a single judgement!
There are various reasons attributed to the huge backlog of cases in courts, the main one being not enough judges (around 43% of posts vacant), vacation taken by judges (though it might be justified by the huge workload they have to deal with), etc
In the district courts, more cases are being filed than disposed off every month, which means that the pending cases will never be cleared.
So is it time to look at it from the other side as well so the number of cases that gets added to the backlog every single day is significantly reduced?
What do you think is the best possible way to reduce the number of cases being filed?
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