"Using the above criterion, the judge-population ratio works out to be 21.03 judges per million population for the year 2020," the minister...

The document states that while the subordinate courts have a shortage of 5748 judicial officers, the 24 high courts face 406 vacancies.

Based on the 2011 census and sanctioned strength of judges of the Supreme Court, the 24 high courts and numerous subordinate courts, the ra...

The ministry's note comes months after Chief Justice of India T S Thakur lamented "inaction" by the Executive to increase the number of jud...

According to the data put out by the Law Ministry in public domain, the judge to population ratio in India stands at 17.86 judges per 10 la...

The study points out how states such as Tamil Nadu and Punjab ranked lower in terms of the number of pending cases despite of low judge-pop...

Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda described the criticism heaped on the Modi govt for “inaction” in filling up judicial vacancies as “unfa...

According to the government, the capital has 47 judges per million persons (almost touching United Kingdom at 51) and yet suffers from a hu...

Chief Justice of India TS Thakur today said access to justice was a fundamental right and governments cannot afford to deny it to the peopl...

All the CMs and the higher judiciary also agreed to increase the strength of subordinate judiciary by 10% every year till the judge-populat...

The current sanctioned strength of the subordinate judiciary is 20,214 judges while that of the 24 high courts is 1,056 and the pendency of...

According to a study conducted by Daksh, a judge in a high court spends less than five minutes, on an average, hearing a case.

The law ministry has drawn up a list of 22 additional judges of various high courts whose terms are coming to an end in the next two months.

Over two crore cases are pending in subordinate courts in the country which also face a shortage of over 3,000 judicial personnel, a Parlia...

India has just 13 judges for every ten lakh people as against 35-40 in other developing nations and 50 in a developed country.

Instead of employing new judges, retired sessions judges & additional sessions judges be appointed as ad hoc judges for disposing of the pe...

Terming as "grossly inadequate" the current judge to population ratio, PM assured chief ministers of more central funds.