Judicial Delays - Interesting read from TOI

[sharktale1212]

I found this Op-ed on TOI, and kind of turns the focus on courts:

There are around 21.3 million cases currently pending in various courts in India including the Supreme Court. The magnitude of this problem was brought sharply into perspective in a magazine article last year, which stated “if the nation’s judges attacked their backlog nonstop with no breaks for eating or sleeping and closed 100 cases every hour, it would take more than 35 years to catch up”. How did we get here?

The problem of delay in Indian judicial system has been studied extensively by the Indian Law Commission over the years. In these studies, infrastructural deficiencies have frequently been blamed for the delay. Accordingly, more courts and more judges are seen as a solution. However, a cause that remains under-examined in the literature and public discourse on delay is the contribution of the courts to the problem by non-adherence to procedural timeframes.

http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatime...procedure-worsen-the-problem-of-adjournments/

 

[RakaKaKaka]

Criminals and big corporates sure exploit it well

 

[adventureguy]

Not only corporates but I've personally seen Ladies using anti dowry law to threaten husbands during divorce so that they can get better maintainance and child custody from husbands.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

 

[sharktale1212]

Not only corporates but I've personally seen Ladies using anti dowry law to threaten husbands during divorce so that they can get better maintainance and child custody from husbands.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Well the topic on hand is the courts, specially the SC having to do something with the justice being delayed.

They are more concerned after justice served than anything else:

It specifically disallowed the courts from enlarging the time granted by them for doing any “act prescribed or allowed by the Code” beyond a maximum period of 30 days. However, in the same 2005 case, the Supreme Court interpreted this timeframe as one not attenuating the inherent power of Indian courts to “pass orders as may be necessary for the ends of justice or to prevent abuse of process of the Court”.