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Backlog burden of Supreme Court, from Aadhaar to Ayodhya -Vishnu Padmanabhan and Sriharsha Devulapalli

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The Supreme Court is delivering more judgements, especially on appeals, even as it continues to be plagued by a massive backlog of cases, shows data

New Delhi:
These are busy times for the Supreme Court. From Aadhaar to Ayodhya, the apex court is poised to deliver verdicts that could change the Indian society. However, beyond the headline cases, the court is also hearing several other, more mundane cases. This is part of a broader trend in increased Supreme Court activity that has seen nearly two million cases disposed and more than 50,000 judgements delivered since its inception.

A disposed case is when all court proceedings are complete and either a verdict is delivered, or as in most Supreme Court cases, the case is dismissed without a hearing. In terms of disposed cases per judge, a rough proxy for output that adjusts for the changing size of the apex court, productivity has steadily increased over time. Yet the Supreme Court continues to be plagued by pending cases.

Latest figures reveal that there are 54,013 pending matters in the Supreme Court. To put this in perspective, if the Supreme Court refused to admit any new cases, it would still take more than two years to just clear all pending regular hearings (assuming it continues its 2017 pace of disposal). This backlog is just the tip of the Indian judiciary’s backlog problem, as this column has highlighted before. Just in the high courts, at the end of 2017, there were more than 4.2 million pending cases (compared with 1.6 million cases disposed in the year).

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