'TAREEKH PE TAREEKH': Nearly 62,000 cases pending in HCs are over 30 years old

There are nearly 62 thousand cases pending in various high courts, which are more than 30 years old, including three awaiting disposal since 1952.

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• INCLUDING THREE AWAITING DISPOSAL SINCE 1952

According to official data, there are four cases pending since 1954 and nine since 1955 in high courts.

Out of the three cases pending since 1952, two are in the Calcutta High Court and one in the Madras High Court.

Addressing the national conference of district judiciary here earlier this week, President Droupadi Murmu had called for a change in the "culture of adjourn ments" in the judiciary.

She said long-standing pendency and backlog of cases is a big challenge before the judiciary.