JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED
As per the recent NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) report, over 47 million cases are pending before the judiciary awaiting justice, which recently surpassed the 5 crore mark in a report presented by the government in Rajya Sabha from the data retrieved from the Integrated Case Management System (ICMIS) by the Supreme Court of India.1 Furthermore, nearly 90 percent of logjams come from subordinate courts, followed by a considerable amount from the higher judiciary. On top of that, nearly 2 million cases have been pending for the last 30 years before different courts. On average, it takes a decade and more than a half for the disposal of matters related to civil and criminal law, respectively. However, often the number rose to 20, or even more than 30 years in some cases.