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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.