Vacant Tribunals: Crowding Litigants

'Justice delayed is justice denied' as an adage is commonly understood and will safely find no or very less opposition in any civic society. First brush with this adage was as a law student, however, it is as relevant as when visited first. Unfortunately, its relativity in Indian context never seems to fade away. Recently, as per the response to a query in Rajya Sabha¹ , as per Ministry of Law and Justice the total number of cases pending before following Courts are:

While disposal of pending cases has gathered much steam in recent times, need for additional judges in all the Courts is well known. Delay in the context of justice dispensation is undeniably painful for a litigant and such delay becomes even more agonizing when statutory commissions and tribunals established