Nearly 62,000 of cases pending in high courts are over 30 years oldNearly 62,000 cases older than 30 years are pending in various high courts, with some dating back to the 1950s. President Droupadi Murmu an...
Litigants will lose confidence in judicial system due to delayed disposal of cases: SCThe Supreme Court has issued directions to ensure speedy trial and disposal of old cases, stating that litigants may become disillusioned i...
Supreme Court's real-time data now a click away on National Judicial Data GridAccording to an official release by the Ministry of Law and Justice, "Now we have all three tiers of Indian judiciary on NJDG portal. NJDG ...
SC data to be available on National Judicial Data Grid: PM hails CJI, says it will further transparencyChandrachud announced that the apex court will soon be linked to the NJDG, a repository of data relating to pendency of cases and disposal ...
Nearly 60 lakh cases pending in HCs, over 69,000 in Supreme CourtCiting details available on the SC website, Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said in a written reply that 69,511 cases were pending in the top cou...
CJI DY Chandrachud announces launch of service to provide verdicts in some scheduled languagesThere are of 22 languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution. They include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, K...
National judicial database says 63 lakh cases considered delayed due to non-availability of counsels: CJI"Bail, but not jail, is one of the most fundamental rules of the criminal justice system. Yet, in practice the number of under-trials langu...
Soon Supreme Court will be on National Judicial Data Grid: Supreme CourtThe bench then said that it will list the matter for further hearing after the summer vacation and requested the president of CESTAT to ens...
Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launches e-filing portal of the Income Tax Appellate TribunalLaunching the portal, Prasad said the digital India initiative seeks to bridge the divide between the digital haves and the digital have no...
Law minister plans to clear backlog in 1 year with fast-track courtsThe combined data for rape and Pocso Act cases are of March 31, 2018, and those of only Pocso Act cases are of June 2019, both supplied by ...
1,000 lower courts not updating case data on national gridIn order to bring transparency in judicial functions and reduce pendency, the government with the help of the Supreme Court had started onl...
Government to give unique ID to all judges to track performanceCurrently , such details about individual judges are not available on any centralised electronic platform. Court-specific orders and case r...
Government wants performance of judges to be assessed before recommendation for elevationLaw minister DV Sadananda Gowda on October 7 had written to the then Chief Justice of India, HL Dattu, underlining the significance of NJDG.
Over 2 crore cases pending in lower courts: Government dataAs per data available on the National Judicial Data Grid on December 31, 2015, there are 2,00,60,998 cases pending across district courts.
Plan to digitise judicial data fails to take offSix months after the matter was discussed at the last advisory council meeting, only eight chief justices have shown interest and responded.
Government seeks judges' appraisal from Supreme CourtThe court-specific data will help the NJAC set judges' performance standards and could be key in determining promotions of judges to higher...
Portal giving information on nation-wide pending cases launchedNJDG, which was today inaugurated by Supreme Court judge Justice MB Lokur, will give litigants and others the consolidated figures of pendi...