CJI Deepak Mishra advises advocates to avoid seeking adjournments for finding early resolutions

NewsBharati    17-Sep-2017
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Chennai, September 17: Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra has called for finding early resolutions to disputes to ensure speedy justice. Speaking at the Madras High Court, he asked advocates to avoid seeking adjournments in cases as much as possible.

The Chief Justice dedicated the renovated 125 years old heritage structures within the premises of the High Court including a light house and a court museum in Chennai. Union Minister of Law and Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad stressed that the judiciary should dispose off cases which are more than ten years old, on a priority basis.

 

There are 2.54 crore cases pending in around 17,000 subordinate courts across the country, of which 22.76 lakh cases have been pending for more than 10 years, according to latest statistics from the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG).

According to the government's estimates, two-thirds of the country's prison population comprises undertrials, a reflection of the decayed system that has failed to harness technology to speed up the justice delivery mechanism.

Gujarat at nearly 20% has the highest percentage of cases pending for over 10 years in subordinate courts, followed by Odisha at 17%, Bihar at 16%, UP at 13%, West Bengal and Uttarakhand at 12% each and J&K at 11%.

The worst sufferers of pendency are women and senior citizens, with around 15% of the 2.54 crore pending cases related to them. Eleven lakh cases filed by senior citizens and over 26 lakh cases filed by women are pending in courts today.

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