India's Supreme Court has a record backlog of 83,000 cases as at August 2024.
BENGALURU – When Mr Jagdeep Singh filed a petition challenging a government notice that demanded he pay an additional amount for the residential land he was allotted, the middle-aged professional did not expect it to end only 20 years later, with the Supreme Court of India delivering an epic scolding to the state agency for dragging out the petty case.
Mr Singh’s case involved 26,880 rupees that Huda kept demanding as unpaid dues for 20 years, but which the courts repeatedly ruled he did not owe. The Supreme Court verdict said that “the amount spent on litigation would be much more ”. With more than 45 million pending cases across all courts, India desperately needs more courtrooms and technological upgrades, as well as 50 judges per million people to cope with the current case volume. It has only 21 judges per million.
While there is no official data, some studies estimate that the government has spent over 5 billion rupees as litigation expenses over the last decade. By the time they got their dues in 2014, the women were elderly and one of them had had a paralytic stroke. The heavy backlog has also “allowed the court to avoid difficult cases by the simple expedient of not deciding such cases at all”, said Dr Aparna Chandra, associate professor of law at the National Law School, Bengaluru, and the co-author of the 2023 book Court On Trial: A Data-Driven Account Of The Supreme Court Of India.
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