Daksh, a Bengaluru-based research organization, decodes reasons behind falling judicial efficiency in a report titled 'State of Indian Judiciary'

A survey by research agency Daksh, made available exclusively to India Today, exposes the reasons for the unconscionable delays in the delivery of justice in India, the unserviceable workload, the harassment of litigants and chronic administrative neglect.

India’s court system has become so troubling and clogged that the country’s chief justice almost broke down in front of prime minister Narendra Modi on April 24, with an appeal to resuscitate it.

As many as two-thirds of civil cases in district courts relate to land and property matters, shows a survey of Indian litigants released last week by Daksh, a Bangalore-based civil society organisation.

Most of the litigants in the country earn less than Rs. 3 lakh a year, says a new survey by the Bengaluru-based civil society organisation DAKSH.

New Delhi: Nearly 62% of 9,329 litigants surveyed believed that a judge did not pass an order quickly in their case, according to a study.

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.