Huge Pendencies in our Courts and long delays.

The high image of judiciary is now being fast eroded by huge pendencies in our Courts and long delays. Rather it is sometimes said that only those can afford to approach the Courts who have arms of silver which have no dearth of money in spending, and legs of steel which do not of coming again and again to courts. Our justice system is terribly cumbersome, exorbitantly expensive, long time consuming, dilatory, complex, cumulatively disastrous and also stressful, on account of variety of reasons, viz., the poor cannot reach the court because of heavy fee and other expenditure and mystique legal procedure. Truly admitting that our judiciary creaking under the seemingly impossible load of cases awaiting disposal needs urgent attention if we have to avoid collapse of the system, which could put in jeopardy the whole state of orderly society.

Coming to the facts in this regard, the numbers of pending cases at present amount to a staggering 29 million in all the courts taken together in the country. There are cases where the disposal has taken as many as 30 to 40 years. The Standing Committee of Home Affairs in its Report in 2007 relating to pendency of cases revealed the magnitude of the problem. Pendency of cases is spreading like epidemic, be it the Supreme Court, High Court or Subordinate Courts.

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