-Scroll.in There are more than 2.7 crore cases pending in district Courts across the country and 60% of them are more than two years old. Will you stand in a queue that is likely to take 466 years to clear up? That’s how much time it will take the Delhi High Court to clear up its backlog of pending cases. Unfortunately, the situation is not so much better in lower level Courts...
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SC launches portal on pendency of cases
-The Hindu The pendency statistics would be updated by district court complexes on a daily basis. Inviting the public to keep tabs on the burgeoning case pendency rates in their local Courts, the Supreme Court on Saturday launched the public access portal of the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) district Courts in a step towards demystification of the judicial process for the ordinary citizen. With this, the ambitious effort to digitise court system...
More »Interim stay on cancellation of Greenpeace’s registration
-The Hindu In a breather to Greenpeace India Society, the Madras High Court on Wednesday granted an interim stay on a Home Ministry order, which cancelled the Foreign Contributions (Regulations) Act, 2010 registration given to the international NGO. When the plea filed by Greenpeace came up for hearing on Wednesday, which challenged the Home Ministry order on September 2, Justice M.M. Sundresh granted an interim stay on the order and ordered for...
More »85% kid abuse cases pending in Delhi Courts -Ambika Pandit
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The overall average percentage of pending cases under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) in children's Courts in Delhi between April 2013 and March 2014 was 85% with the west district having the highest pendency of about 93%, reports Ambika Pandit. In a shocking finding, the average pendency in Delhi's children's Courts during the financial year 2013-14 of cases registered under Protection Of Children...
More »Delhi's Upscale Hospitals Are Turning Away The Poor In Whose Name They Got Land, Subsidies -Vidya Krishnan
-Huffington Post The heartbreaking story of the parents who jumped to their death in Delhi following the death of their 7-year-old son who succumbed to dengue after being turned away from two major city hospitals has shaken the public health establishment. Union health minister JP Nadda has ordered an enquiry into the incident. Just last month, a man was made to wait for his infant son's dead body because he couldn't pay...
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