Five High Courts Have 54% Share in Total Pending Cases of Over 57.51 Lakhs in 25 HCs: SC
Five High Courts –Allahabad, Punjab and Haryana, Madras, Bombay, and Rajasthan — have huge 54 per cent shares in over 57.51 lakh pending cases in 25 high courts of the country, the Supreme Court Tuesday said while paving way for appointment of ad-hoc judges to tackle docket explosion. The judgement, penned by the CJI, referred to the data of National Judicial Data Grid and said it shows that five High Courts alone are responsible for 54 per cent of the pendency of over 57,51,312 cases the High Courts of Allahabad, Punjab & Haryana, Madras, Bombay, and Rajasthan. In such a scenario, it is apparently the absence of strength of the Judges which may be responsible for creating the arrears and, thus, giving rise to another scenario for appointment of ad-hoc JudgesThe NJDG data shows that 56.4 per cent pending cases were filed within the past five years whereas 40 per cent of the pending cases were filed between 5 to 20 years ago. The primary purpose of appointing ad-hoc Judges is to deal with the latter group of cases that have been pending for over five years, it said and referred to the chart showing percentage break-up of cases pending before High Courts for different periods of time as on April 4, 2021.
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