Huge pendency is the bane of our judicial system. Thousands of cases more than one or two decades old await disposal at various subordinate courts as well as at the superior courts. This is an aspersion on our judicial system. Deficiency of manpower in various courts is the serious handicap for the litigants as well as the courts. Despite repeated imploring by judicial organs to the executive to increase manpower in judicial organs, no satisfactory results have emerged so far. This is notwithstanding various reforms brought about the State High Court on its level.
Another phenomenon that increases the burden of the courts is that in a large number of cases, the executive is unable to take a decision and thus approaches the court of law directly or indirectly for a dispensation. As people have begun to become aware of civil, political and human rights, they are prompted to seek these at the courts of law. Hence we find the unexpected increase in litigation and consequently increase in the burden of the courts.
We highly appreciate the appeal of the Chef Justice of India to the judges of State High Courts to utilize sometime of their vacations for hearing the pending old cases and dispose these off as early as possible. The Chief Justice of J&K High Court has responded positively to the appeal of the CJ and asked the judges of the court to voluntarily spare sometime of their vacation period for looking into the old cases. This step will help in disposing off the old cases and reducing burden from the shoulders of the judges of the High Court. The spirit behind this appeal of the CJ is that justice delayed is justice denied.
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