Indian Chief Justice Ranajan Gogoi revealed Sunday more than two lakh cases are still pending in courts for 25 years and even after fifty years about 1,000 cases have not been disposed.
Gogoi was speaking at a public function on Sunday and said, “In India, we have a little over one thousand 50-year-old cases and above two lakh 25-year-old cases.”
The CJI added about twenty lakh civil cases are such in which summons have not yet served and this is about 23 percent of the total 90 lakh pending civil cases in the country.
He said if the summons are not sent, how can the judges start trials and so it is a question to the responsible executive arm of the government.
Gogoi further said that about 45 lakh civil cases are just for petty offences.
He added that chief justices of high courts have been requested to do the needful to the 50-year-old and 25-year-old pending cases.
Expressing hope Delhi would accept his proposal to raise retirement age of high court judges, the CJI said in the North Eastern states no case is 50-year-old but 106 cases have been identified which are pending for past 25 years.
Gogoi’s proposal is to raise the retirement age of high court judges from 62 to 65.
