The Odisha government has released a tender to develop, maintain, and operate an AI-based Judicial Petition Response Drafting System, as it plans to automate the judicial petition response generation process.

Last month, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, highlighted the issue of court delays. In her speech at the National Conference of the District Judiciary, she noted that these delays are what are making people hesitate approaching courts, as they fear that the pursuit of justice will complicate their lives further.

A few weeks ago, the case of a woman who had filed a rape case, was sentenced to imprisonment, and fined by a court in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, dominated the headlines. The narrative, echoed by select media users, painted a picture of a woman who had brazenly fabricated rape accusations.

The number of bail applications filed in the country's high courts has increased by 35 percent in the past eight years.

Over the past eight years, bail cases filed across high courts in India have increased by about 35 per cent. Amid innumerable Supreme Court declarations emphasising bail as a ‘default’ practice, district courts routinely deny it.

Karnataka fell to 14th rank in 2020 from 6th rank in 2019 in terms of the overall justice delivery system, as per the India Justice Report released in Bengaluru on Saturday. While Karnataka topped the list in policing,

India takes an average of 2,184 days to dispose a case in its subordinate courts, 1,128 days in its High Courts, and 1,095 days in the Supreme Court, bringing the total life cycle of a case in India to 12+ years

Several government decisions and Supreme Court observations and verdicts delivered in 2022 have had, or will have, an impact on the justice system in India.

Affordable justice, much like affordable healthcare and housing, is a bedrock of modern democracies which place a premium on the welfare of their citizens

Justice Gautam Patel and Cyril Shroff share their thoughts around 'Amrit Kaal' on the occasion of the 73rd Constitution Day.

After 108 years, a district court in Bhojpur, Bihar, finally rendered a decision in a case involving a land dispute in May of this year. This implied, without a doubt, that the matter has been ongoing since colonial times

India has 371,848 prisoners in pre-trial detention, known locally as undertrials. 76%--three in four--of all prisoners in Indian jails are awaiting trial. This compares unfavourably with the global average, which is 34%.