The saying that `justice delayed is justice denied’ holds true for the millions of countrymen who on account of prolong delay in dispensation of justice have to suffer from insurmountable problems and have to languish in jails for several years before they are set free by the courts for lack of evidences against them.
The Union government’s proposal to set up 1,800 Fast Track Courts across the country to expedite delivery of justice has come as a big solace for lakhs and crores of people in the country who are in legal tangles for one or the other reasons. That setting up fast track court should essentially help in speeding up judicial process, given huge pendency of cases in our country
However, such a large pendency of court cases in our country has its own multiple reasons . This includes poor judge-population ratio, prolonged and costly litigation caused by procedures, lawyers' vested interests, poor infrastructure, shortage of judicial personnel and weak alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, according to Standing Committee on Law and Personnel.
Despite the country having over 1,000 fast track courts in the past few years, set up for moving the wheels of justice faster, a whopping two crore cases are pending in subordinate courts in India. According to the Department of Justice, as on March 31, 2013, a total of 2,68,51,766 cases were pending in subordinate courts which makes a telling commentary on the state of affairs of our revered judicial system.
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