Wait for justice in India can be agonisingly long as the first tier of the country’s justice administration system, district courts, is burdened with over 30 million pending cases and this number is increasing. More than two thirds of the pending suits are criminal cases, showing a lack of effective prosecution and early disposal. Large number of pendency of criminal cases are worrisome for two reasons. Firstly, it denies the access to justice to a large number of victims of crime. Secondly, because of slow progress of the criminal cases, a large number of undertrial prisoners continue to languish in jails, sometimes, they end up spending more time in jail as undertrials than the prescribed term of imprisonment for the crime they have been accused of committing. In September 2018, just before taking the charge, Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi had expressed concern over the huge pendency of court cases while addressing a group of young lawyers. “Two things are troubl...
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