Justice Suryakant, who is set to become the next Chief Justice of India, said that more than 5 crore pending cases in the country are the biggest challenge for the judiciary. He said that dealing with these backlogs and promoting mediation to resolve disputes would be his two priorities.

Justice Suryakant said - The number of pending cases in the Supreme Court has crossed 90,000. My first and biggest challenge is these pending cases. I am not going into how this happened, who is responsible. Perhaps the listing has increased.

He gave an example that about 1,200 cases related to Delhi's land acquisition dispute were resolved by one of his decisions. Justice Suryakant said that the second issue is mediation. It is one of the easiest ways to resolve disputes and it can truly be a game-chang

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