5-6 minutes to decide cases |
Mounting cases and shortage of judges are challenges facing the Indian judiciary. Now, for the first time, a study has quantitatively analysed the work pressure on judges, and the results are shocking. A judge in a high court spends less than five minutes, on an average, hearing a case, it says.The most relaxed high court judges in the country have 15-16 minutes to hear a case, while the busiest have just about 2.5 minutes to hear a case and, on average, they have approximately five-six minutes to decide a case, according to the study conducted by Daksh, a Bengaluru-based non-governmental organisation that studies and analyses judicial performance.For instance, in the Calcutta high court, there are 163 cases listed before a judge on an average day and just over five-and half hours are spent hearing cases. The judge, therefore, gets around two minutes over each case. The same is the case in the high courts of Patna, Hyderabad, Jharkhand and Rajasthan who get two-three minutes on each case per day while in Allahabad, Gujarat, Karnataka, MP and Orissa, they spend 4-6 minutes.
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