Courts will take 320 years to clear backlog cases: Justice Rao

[Spring Onion]

Courts will take 320 years to clear backlog cases: Justice Rao


HYDERABAD: Indian judiciary would take 320 years to clear the backlog of 31.28 million cases pending in various courts including High courts in the country, Andhra Pradesh High Court judge Justice V V Rao said.

"If one considers the total pendency of cases in the Indian judicial system, every judge in the country will have an average load of about 2,147 cases," Justice Rao said, while delivering the keynote address on E-Governance in Judiciary.
India has 14,576 judges as against the sanctioned strength of 17,641 including 630 High Court Judges. This works out to a ratio of 10.5 judges per million population, Justice Rao said.

The Apex court in 2002 had suggested 50 judges per million population, he said.

If the norm of 50 judicial officers per million becomes reality by 2030 when the country's population would be 1.5 to 1.7 billion, the number of judges would go upto 1.25 lakh dealing with 300 million case.

A recent study indicated that the number of new cases has direct relationship with increasing literacy rate and awareness, he said.

Citing example of Kerala, a high literacy state, he said with awareness, 28 new cases per 1000 population per annum have been added, whereas, Bihar with relatively low literacy rate the figure stands at just three, he said.
He opined that the use of Information and Communication Technologies in judiciary helps judicial administration in speedy disposal of cases by providing access to legal and judicial database to judges.


Courts will take 320 years to clear backlog cases: Justice Rao - India - The Times of India

 

[Spring Onion]

And Pakistan will need more the 320 years to clear the pending cases

 

[Yusuf]

Interestingly though, all the high profile cases get cleared in no time. Most of the time the accused is acquitted. Usually in the lower courts. But then someone files it in the higher court, but by then the accused vanishes.

 

[Yusuf]

Reminded of a movie called Ghayal. Sunny Deol shouts in his own style Tareek pe Tareek, tareek pe tareek!!!

 

[Spring Onion]

Interestingly though, all the high profile cases get cleared in no time. Most of the time the accused is acquitted. Usually in the lower courts. But then someone files it in the higher court, but by then the accused vanishes.

The problem is that its the poor who suffer the most

This colonial judicial system is just a shi.t

 

[Justin Joseph]

India to appoint adhoc judges

By : Jithendra.H.J on 27 October 2009

The Government of India will recruit 15,000 trial court judges and 700 high court judges on a contractual basis to work in three shifts to clear the huge 3.1 crore backlog court cases.


As per the vision statement of the Ministry of Law, retired judges and senior lawyers would be appointed as ad hoc judges for a limited period of one to two years on contract on a consolidated honorarium of Rs 50,000 or more a month.

The decision for this ambitious scheme was finalised at the end of a two-day seminar on "National Consultation for Strengthening the Judiciary Towards Reducing Pendency and Delays,” organised by the Law Ministry.

At its conclusion, the seminar adopted the Law Ministry's "vision statement", which finalised a multi-pronged scheme to eliminate the staggering backlog of court cases.

The schemes ranged from evolving a National Litigation Policy to make the government shed its dubious tag of being the largest litigant and transform it into "a responsible and reluctant litigant from a compulsive one". It also sought establishing a National Arrear Grid for scientific monitoring of pending cases and to reduce time taken in their adjudication at various levels.

During the seminar, the judiciary, led by Chief Justice Balakrishnan and the Supreme Court's second senior most judge, Justice SH Kapadia, made a vehement demand for a hike in court fees, specially in corporate and business matters, for better funding of the judiciary.

Moily readily acceded to the demand and promised requisite legislative or executive steps for the purpose, reports IANS.

The judiciary also demanded establishment of commercial courts in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, and the Law Minister said the Bill for the purpose would be introduced in the forthcoming winter session of parliament.

These judges would work in three shifts, with the night shift judges often working till midnight to decide cases so that the pendency of cases is brought down from 15 years to three years.

The vision statement envisaged this radical scheme would reduce the backlog of cases to three-year pendency period by December 31, 2011. A status report on the goals achieved will be submitted to the Prime Minister on January 31, 2010.

At present, there are 2.7 crore cases pending with the trial courts, the lowest rung of judiciary, where the sanctioned strength of judges for these courts is 16,721.

The High Courts have a sanctioned strength of 886 judges, and are grappling to deal with a pendency of 40 lakh cases.

The Supreme Court has around 53,000 cases pending, and the sanctioned strength of 31 judges to deal with these.

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[Yusuf]

would be interesting to compare how the rest of the world is doing. Anyone with figures of that?

 

[SAUD-404]

hmmm 320 years OMG this means we have to wait even after 2012, what a joke this is not even close to west, i have lived in uk and i had also been through some civil offences and it took me about 2 to 3 weeks to be considered as Mr. clean , pakistan so badly need upgraded justice, i mean half of our nation is spending most of their priceless time in just waiting to be cleared from courts.

 

[Justin Joseph]

would be interesting to compare how the rest of the world is doing. Anyone with figures of that?

No country can have more cases than India as its 2nd largest populated country in the world and last but not the least, a democracy.

1. The majority of cases are for petty things, civil cases like u have used my share of water in irrigation or braked some part of my agriculture field etc.

2. The government is the largest petitioner as babus don't want to work only makes cases on petty issues, they will not settle cases or eradicate problems but fight cases and burden the courts.

3. Some times its rich and babus fixes case and continue to fight in court as rich evade to pay dues.

4. Traffic challans and small commercial cases like cheque bouncing are also the cause of the large amount of cases.

The most important thing it is very easy and cheap to file a case in the court, Poor people don't have to pay any court fee fees" and for general public to multi millionaires have to pay 2 rupees to Rs. 10/- as court's fee.

 

[Evil Flare]

Colonial Type Justice System Sucks ....