Case Pendency News Today

CJ Gangapurwala often asks PIL petitioners to establish their bona fides before the Court by depositing an amount with the Registry that will get forfeited if their plea is found to be frivolous.

The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has launched an action plan to reduce the pendency of cases, especially cases that have been pending for more than five years, before district courts.

Justice Vidyarthi said that while judges are trying to reduce the pendency, they cannot do so without the cooperation of lawyers.

The Supreme Court on Thursday underscored that the high pendency of cases before courts cannot be resolved unless the lawyers also cooperate with the process and act in a fair manner.

The CJI revealed that there are currently 80,000 cases pending in the Supreme Court, which was outside the purview of the real-time tracking of cases by NJDG.

Chief Justice Varale was speaking at an event organized to mark the 77th Independence Day of India when he observed that there is a need to redouble efforts to clear the backlog of cases in the Karnataka High Court.

The court released them on a bond instead of sentencing them to a jail term. It said this would help achieve the objective of the legislation behind introducing plea bargaining in the Indian criminal justice system.

The case of Balram Kashyap v. Bhagirathi Ganju, possibly the oldest pending case in India’s judiciary, serves as a stark reminder of the need to prioritize judicial reform.

While the representation of women judges in the subordinate courts is rising, the same cannot be said about the high courts. Between 2020 and 2022, the high courts saw a little less than two percentage point increase in women’s representation.

Voicing concern over the rising pendency of cases, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said it is "not the fault of the judge but of the system", and the government is taking more steps to address the issue.