Q2 Report of the Supreme Court: Pending cases increase by 1 percent and Judges vacancies increase by 7 percent

Bar & Bench News Network

Oct 04, 2010

The recently released Supreme Court statistics on pending cases and vacancies for Judges at various levels does not indicate any better picture. Bar & Bench had prepared a compressive list of pending litigations at various courts in India. As a follow up of that report, we examined the statistics of the half yearly report of the Supreme Court of India, indicating the pending litigations and vacancies at various levels.

Vacancies of Judges

Vacancies	Supreme Court	High Court	Trial Court	Judges vacancies
Q1	2	267	2,785	3,054
Q2	2	285	2,980	3,267

Between March 31, 2010, to June 30, 2010, vacancies at various courts have increased by nearly 7 percent. Law Minister who has unveiled the National Litigation Policy to reduce the pendency from 15 years to 3 years has a tough task ahead of him to fill up the vacancies at various levels if he is serious about reducing the pendency.

Pending Litigations	Supreme Court	High Court	Lower Court*	Total
Q1	54,864	4,060,709	27,275,953	31,391,526
Q2	55,717	4,108,555	27,374,908	31,539,180

*Updated statistics till March 31, 2010

Law Minister has stressed the importance of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) mechanisms to combat the large number of pending cases ailing Indian courts. Late last month, speaking at a conference in Singapore, he said, “India has a comprehensive, contemporary and progressive legal framework to support international arbitration that is on par with the best in the world”.

The Supreme Court has approved the establishment Information and Statistics Department, to be located in the Supreme Court, to periodically assess and accurately determine the pending litigations at various courts and also to act as an Information Bank of necessary information and statistics relating to case management.

Comments(2)

1. ""We the Indians generally recognized with having the biggest democratic government in the world and also with the world's largest written constitution. And we know further the government functioning systems. As 1) Legislative Government, 2) Executive Government and 3) Judiciary Government. We the citizens of the India can be observes / thinks the practicality of the work/functions/performances of the Legislative Government as well as Executive government there is no balance of pending work on account of there performance hence there is no pending/balance of work towards public accountability. Hence we thought proudly that the democracy I India moving greatly from the date of India Independence / from the date of Republic India. Now always we the citizens of India thinks that the Judiciary Government only showing the balance of pending work from the beginning of the India got Independence and from the date of India got republic. Now the assessment of responsibilities shown by the Indian Judicial System is very high as compared to the other two organs of Governments namely Legislature and Executive. Now it shows that the responsibilities given to the Judiciary by the Constitution of India is very big as compared to the other organs of the governments because the hundred crores population of Indian rights safeguarded by the Indian judicial system. Now we the Indians finally can assume there is an imbalance in allotment of responsibilities between the above said three organs of the governments by the Indian constitution 1950. ". Venkatasubbaiah Kadapa, Bangalore
2. "Sir,Sorry and pitiable affair of Indian Judiciary. After implementation of the Shetty Commission the standard of the Judiciary specially Subordinate Judiciary has gone down. How can a fresh Law Graduate work properly on Dias. We the advocates everywhere are the sufferers. How the governemt and the high court can be silent spectator. This incapacity on the part of these judges is also an important reason for pend ency of the cases right from the grass root level.Is there any one listening there-K.E.G.Deshmukh Advocate/Ex-Judge". Ehtesham Deshmukh, (Unknown City) Jalgaon-425001

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