12-05-2004, 08:58 AM
<b>How long before justice comes</b>?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Look at the figures. In the subordinate courts in the districts there are now as many as 2.8 crore cases. These nearly 3 crore cases involve almost about 10 crore people. A large number of these cases are kept pending for years, sometimes decades. In the supreme court, there were recently 26,750 cases and in the high courts, they number nearly 31,88,000. There are vacancies for about 5000 judges in the countryâs courts. We need ten times the existing number of judges to cope with the work load.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Look at the figures. In the subordinate courts in the districts there are now as many as 2.8 crore cases. These nearly 3 crore cases involve almost about 10 crore people. A large number of these cases are kept pending for years, sometimes decades. In the supreme court, there were recently 26,750 cases and in the high courts, they number nearly 31,88,000. There are vacancies for about 5000 judges in the countryâs courts. We need ten times the existing number of judges to cope with the work load.
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