Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal informed Parliament about current judicial vacancies, noting 2 in the Supreme Court, 364 in high courts, and...

"Firstly the advertisements are made and individuals apply. Sometimes the number of applications is high. These applications have to be sca...

Meanwhile, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which got a new chairperson recently, has invited applications for the post of secret...

Filling vacancies with qualified capable persons is another challenge. A transparent system that rewards merit for recruiting judges must b...

Vacancies plague the judicial system, leading to delays. 37% of high court posts have been vacant as of November 2021, and nearly a quarter...

AIJS, cloaked as a judicial reform, is, however, a political gimmick that aims to transfer the recruitment and appointment of district judg...

The top court was told that the government had already published advertisement for filling up nine vacancies for judicial members vide noti...

The ban on the practice of instant triple talaq, making it a penal offence and the increase in the strength of Supreme Court judges were tw...

The court has also sought the time frame from the states and the high courts for completing the recruitment drive and construction of court...

Lower courts currently have pendency of 2.72 crore cases, and judges’ vacancies are seen as one of the reasons.

The SC is asking HCs and state governments to give a projection about the additional manpower and infrastructure required to tackle the hug...

The proposal comes close on the heels of several states, including some ruled by the BJP, opposing the formation of an all-India judicial s...

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had touched the issue at a recent meeting of parliamentary consultative committee on Law and Justice, whic...

It had said that district courts across the country were grappling with a backlog of 2,81,25,066 civil and criminal cases in the period bet...

Between June 2014, when the NDA government assumed office, and now, the combined approved strength of the 24 HCs increased from 906 to 1,07...

Everyone agrees that judicial pendency is a serious problem in India. Most of the suggested big-ticket reforms call for major changes in th...

India’s justice system is seen as an exemplar in sloth and inefficiency, with over 3 cr cases pending and average closure time being over a...