-The Telegraph Court quashed a Green Tribunal order that had stayed the construction of a resort by the Andhra Pradesh government on the Rushikonda Hills in Visakhapatnam New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the National Green Tribunal is subordinate in its jurisdiction to the high courts, which have a constitutional status. The NGT cannot pass orders contradicting those of the high courts as that would lead to an “anomalous” situation...
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-The Telegraph A significant factor behind legal pendency is the number of judicial vacancies, especially in lower courts — more than 5,000 vacancies over the last decade That justice delayed is justice denied is a reality with which Indians are all too familiar. A decade ago, India already had the world’s largest backlog of cases; the total has now climbed to a monumental 4.6 crore. The pandemic, predictably, has exacerbated the problem,...
More »Four pillars of Indian justice system miss one major force- Women -Shreehari Paliath
-India Spend/ Business Standard The India Justice Report by Tata Trusts released on November 7, 2019, finds women poorly represented, accounting for 7 per cent of the police 10 per cent of prison staff At the current rate, nine Indian states will take more than 50 years to increase the share of women in their police forces to 33 per cent, as recommended, a new report estimates. While Madhya Pradesh will take...
More »Only 10% of lower court cases filed by women -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Though women comprise nearly half the country's population and are often at the receiving end of family and property disputes, besides crimes, few of them move courts to seek redress. This is borne out by the fact that just a little over 10% of the 2.55 crore cases pending in subordinate and district courts across the country have been filed by women. A key aspect of pending...
More »4 states, one UT bring down pendency of 10-year-old cases to almost zero -Pradeep Thakur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: For the first time, as many as four states and a Union Territory have managed to bring down cases pending for over 10 years in their Subordinate courts to almost zero. It's not a mean achievement, considering that decade-old cases in the country account for 23 lakh, or almost 9% of all cases pending in the Subordinate courts. Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and Chandigarh are...
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