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Data | Indian judicial data hides more than it reveals in bail cases

The number of bail appeals filed in India’s High Courts surged post 2020, according to the ‘High Court dashboard’ by DAKSH, a think-tank focussed on law and justice system reforms. Click to remove AMP mode Consequently, the number of pending bail appeals in High Courts also surged from around 50,000 to 65,000 to between 1.25 lakh to 1.3 lakh. Chart 2 | The chart shows the bail applications filed in High Courts as a share of their total caseload between July 2021 and June 2022. Chart 3 | The chart shows the median days taken for disposal of regular bail cases in various High Courts The database also reveals that the median number of days taken from the filing date to the decision date for regular bail applications was 23.

The Hindu

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