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In 2024, the total number of pending cases of all types and at all levels rose above 51 million or 5.1 crores, including over 180,000 court cases pending for more than 30 years in district and high courts. [2] [3] [4] 4.5 crore out of 5.1 crore cases, i.e more than 87% cases are pending in district courts as of 2024. [2]
The Delhi Lok Adalat Act is designed to provide constitutional protection guaranteed under Article 14 and 39-A of the Constitution of India, of “ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR ALL”. It is a legal system to resolve pending cases at Panchayat or rural places, those in a pre-litigation stage in courts are resolved amicably. [3]
As per the report released on 2006–08, Delhi High court has a long list of pending cases. The backlog is such that it would take 466 years to resolve them. In a bid to restore public trust and confidence, Delhi court spent 5 minutes per case and disposed of 94,000 cases in 2008–10.
The following types of cases can be admitted in Lok Adalat. [12] 1. Any dispute or case pending in any court of law in India: Criminal offenses which is compoundable. Cases under section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act. Issues relating to the recovery of money. Issues under the Indian Motor Vehicles Act, 1988. Issues relating to labour ...
Excluding connected cases, there are still 33,892 pending cases. [117] Per the latest pendency data made available by the Supreme Court, the total number of pending cases in the Supreme Court as on 1 November 2017 is 55,259 which includes 32,160 admission matters (miscellaneous) and 23,099 regular hearing matters. [ 118 ]
At the current rate, it would take 300 years for the courts to resolve current cases. [56] Many people have cases pending for decades. [56] As of May 2022, India has a sanctioned strength of 25,628 judges with 4.7 crore(47 million) cases pending in judiciary. The legal maxim justice delayed is justice denied is honored only in the breach. On ...
Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India. [1] [2] According to the 2021 annual report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), 31,677 rape cases were registered across the country, or an average of 86 cases daily, a rise from 2020 with 28,046 cases, while in 2019, 32,033 cases were registered. [3]
On 7 December 2015, the Delhi High Court dismissed the appeals of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and five others which included Motilal Vora, Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey and Sam Pitroda, [39] and ordered them to appear in person before the trial court on 9 December. [40] The Delhi High Court in its 7 December 2015 judgment noted "criminal intent ...