The total sanctioned strength in the 25 High Courts is 1,080. However, the present working strength is 661 with 419 vacancies as of March 1,2021. The SC highlighted this as one of the reasons for the pendency of cases in the Judiciary<\/a>. The pendency of cases in the Judiciary is a long pending issue. <\/span><\/p>\n Although the credibility of the judiciary is not a cause of concern, it is the pendency that is creating a major issue. <\/span>It can have grave consequences such as denial of justice, prison overload etc. Thereby it demands urgent attention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The right to fair and speedy trial must be upheld in all circumstances as it is an important component of dignified life under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. Further, the pendency of cases also depends on other reforms like Prison reforms<\/a>, police reforms etc. The government has to ensure those reforms as well. In conclusion, we must remember that Justice Delayed is Justice Denied<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction Recently the Supreme Court asked the reason from the government for delaying the process of appointment of judges. The SC also highlighted that the government has not cleared the 55 recommendations made by the Collegium for judicial appointments to High Courts.\u00a0 The total sanctioned strength in the 25 High Courts is 1,080. However, the… Continue reading Pendency of Cases and Rising Vacancies in the Judiciary – Explained, Pointwise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,9],"tags":[1337],"class_list":["post-98439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-pm","category-public","tag-po_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Status of pendency of cases in the judiciary<\/b><\/h5>\n
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