NEW DELHI: Mounting cases and shortage of judges are well-documented challenges facing the Indian judiciary.

ಹೈಕೋರ್ಟ್ ಮತ್ತು ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್ ನ್ಯಾಯಮೂರ್ತಿಗಳನ್ನು ನೇಮಕ ಮಾಡುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಎನ್‌ಡಿಎ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಜಾರಿಗೆ ತಂದಿದ್ದ ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಂಗ ನೇಮಕಾತಿ ಆಯೋಗ (ಎನ್‌ಜೆಎಸಿ) ಕಾಯ್ದೆಯನ್ನು ಅಸಾಂವಿಧಾನಿಕವೆಂದು ಕೆಲವು ತಿಂಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆಯಷ್ಟೇ ಸರ್ವೋಚ್ಚ ನ್ಯಾಯಾಲಯವು ಘೋಷಿಸಿತು.

While the average pendency of a case before a High Court in the country is 1,098 days — three years — it is marginally lower in the Karnataka High Court with an average pendency of 1,039 days.

BENGALURU: There were 16,01,760 cases pending before 18 ofthe 24 high courts in the country, according to data portal (www.dakshlegal.in), established by DAKSH, a civil society .

Judicial delay must be discussed in the public sphere and not just as an internal, administrative matter to get a methodical solution.

That India’s courts are clogged with long-pending cases is well-known, but the texture of the problem is something we’ve known little about so far.

Nearly a quarter of the cases pending in High Courts are still at the admission stage; in the Karnataka High Court alone, a Company Petition has been awaiting admission since 1985.