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🎙️Podcast | Backlogged Courts — Is The Judiciary Or Government To Blame?
Dear Listeners,
The total number of pending cases in courts now exceeds 5 crore. The government — being the largest litigant — is responsible for 50 percent of these cases, and 85 percent of all pending cases are concentrated in district courts alone.
This raises a crucial question: why is the government, the very entity tasked with strengthening the judicial system, also straining its resources?
Do our courts have the capacity to efficiently dispose of these cases?
While there are over 5,000 vacancies for judges in lower courts, why do the state governments or the higher courts put a stay on recruitment of civil judges in the state?
In the latest episode of What This Means we discuss with Nikhil Mehra, a Supreme Court lawyer, and Abhishek Dwivedi, a lawyer practising before the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court, the various problems facing the courts in fast-tracking the huge pile of pending cases and the solutions for them.
On the bright side, there's a silver lining: for the first time last year, the disposal rate of cases outpaced the filing rate — a trend that continued this year. Just last month, 22 lakh cases were filed, while 31 lakh were disposed of.
You can listen to the full episode on YouTube, Spotify, or Swarajya App.
Your Host,
Diksha Yadav
