HYDERABAD: Nearly 11 lakh cases are pending in various subordinate courts, district courts and high court in Telangana as on September 30, 2022, Union law minister Kiren Rijiju said on Friday.
In a written reply to questions from A Revanth Reddy of Congress and Kotha Prabhakar Reddy of BRS in Lok Sabha, the minister said as many as 17 cases were unresolved for over 40 years. He said 2.36 lakh cases were pending in Telangana high court in 2022 and another 8.22 lakh in subordinate and district courts.
Of the 17 long pending cases, 15 are hanging fire in high court with one of the cases pertaining to 1976, three cases related to 1977, another three were reported in 1978 and eight from 1979.
There are two cases pending in district and subordinate courts with one each from 1978 and 1979 respectively in Telangana.
Interestingly, the cases pending from 1970 to 1979 in district subordinate courts of Andhra Pradesh are zero while the count is 10 cases filed between 1976 and 1979 that are pending in the AP high court.
The pendancy in AP high court is 2.40 lakh cases in 2022 and another 8.27 lakh in subordinate and district courts.
In all, 53.51 lakh cases are pending in various courts in the country in 2022. As many as 67,768 cases were pending in the Supreme Court in 2022.
"The number of cases pending for more than 20 years in the Supreme Court, as per the data retrieved from the Integrated Case Management Information System (ICMIS) as on January 27, 2023, is 208 cases," the law minister said.
"In case of the (25) high courts, there are 2,94,547 cases and 6,71,543 cases in the district and subordinate courts that are pending for more than 20 years as per data available on National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG) on February 1, 2023," he said.
"Pendancy of court cases is a multi-faceted problem. Due to the increase in the population of the country and awareness of their rights amongst the public, filing of fresh cases is also increasing by leaps and bounds year after year," Rijiju said.
There were 3,642 cases filed between 1970 and 1979 that are pending in various high courts in the country.
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