According to statistics as of August this year, the number of pending cases in the Supreme Court, High Courts and lower courts in India is more than 50 million. Of these, 88,417 cases are pending in the Supreme Court, 63.3 lakh cases in the High Courts and 46 crore cases in the lower courts. Many of these cases are decades old and many years have passed since both the plaintiff and the defendant left this world. The judiciary in the country has an appellate system that allows one to file appeals one after the other. This means that it will take at least a quarter of a century to resolve a civil case. There is a strong debate in society that approaching the courts for justice is meaningless in such a situation.

The reality that there is not much difference between justice received too late

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