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The Supreme Court had on Tuesday set up a nine-judge bench to decide if the contentious issue of right to privacy is a fundamental right under the Constitution. (Photo: PTI/File)

Pending cases go down in SC and HCs; lower courts see rise

The lower courts with an approved strength of nearly 20,000 judicial officers is short of 4,937 judicial officers.

2 Oct 2017 1:19 AM IST

In his letter, Justice Kurian Joseph wrote history will not pardon us if the top court did not respond to the government sitting on the Collegiums recommendation of elevating a senior judge and a senior advocate to the top court. (Photo: PTI)

Arbitration may help reduce backlog of pending cases: Justice Kurian...

Justice Joseph also advocated setting up new courts and appointment of more judges to deal with the pendency of cases.

30 Jun 2018 9:10 PM IST

The apex courts order came after the Delhi government said there were around 68 lakh two-wheelers here and it would be impossible to accommodate the people in public transport if the odd-even scheme was made applicable for two-wheelers also. (Representational image)

'Over 22L decade old cases pending in courts'

Of these, 5,97,595 or nearly 5.97 lakh cases are civil in nature and 16.92 lakh (16,92,769) are criminal in nature.

19 Sept 2018 2:15 AM IST

A whopping 2.8 crore cases are pending in district courts across the country which are short of nearly 5,000 judicial officers. (Photo: File)

2.81 crore cases pending in district courts, highest in UP, Maha

The SC has in reports suggested to increase the judicial manpower by at least seven times to overcome the crisis.

15 Jan 2017 9:55 AM IST

CJI Dipak Misra

Everyone is bound to follow rule of law: Chief Justice of India

The CJI said this addressing the 46th All-Odisha Lawyers' Confer-ence here on Friday.

30 Dec 2017 1:12 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: File)

Govt will help judiciary to reduce pendency of cases, PM assures CJI

He asked the people working on startups to bring about innovations to strengthen the judicial system.

2 April 2017 3:06 PM IST

Out-of-court litigation is expected to help reduce the burden on courts in a country where over 3 crore cases are pending.

6 lakh cases pending in high courts across India

The Bombay HC leads the list with 1,29,063 pending cases.

11 Dec 2017 2:53 AM IST