How would you ensure that a case would be disposed within 3 months? What about huge backlog of pending cases?
At present, a total of about 3 crore cases are pending in all courts across the country. Out of this, about 40,000 cases are pending in Supreme Court, 30 lakh in High Courts and 2.60 crore in lower courts. This huge pendency can be cleared by: • improving the poor judge-population ratio in India. The ratio of judges per million population in India is 12, while it is 51 in the UK, 58 in Australia, 75 in Canada, and 107 in the US. The present ratio in India needs to be raised to at least 50 per million population through setting up more courts & running courts in 2 or 3 shifts; • scrapping 2 months vacation time for courts; • filling up all vacancies of judges; • making adjournments very difficult and expensive for the party which seeks it; • by making video recordings of statements of witnesses/parties admissible evidence; • developing specialized judges for specialized courts; • developing mediation/pre-court settlement mechanisms; • shifting the standard of proof from “Beyond reasonab
