Why Indian courts are so slow ?

Answer 1

Point 1 : One Judge and more then 1400 cases ..........Because of this generally Dates are long ...........
Point 2 : Generally Lawyers want to case go and they get money from client ..........

Answer 2

if we have to find out any solutions for this problem, we can think of the following measures:
as we know very well that the ration of Judges to the cases pending is no way imaginable, if it is reduced to a considerable extent either by appointing required number of judges, starting more number of fast track courts, attracting more number of law graduates into the field, supporting student community to go for
the studies in Law instead of software/hardware/information technology, the quality and deliverance of justice will be difinitely improved. Instead going for each and every petty case, why can't we think of re-starting age old methods of Village Panchayath Courts where time and again it has proved the best and co-ordial in settling the disputes without spending much money and energy. And moreover the invaluable time loss is also saved.

Answer 3

Indian judiciary not long ago did a wonderful job. Now, as every other institution has fallen in standard, the Judiciary has also fallen in standard. The following are some of the reasons for the fall in the standards:-

1) Manifold increase in the litigation.
2) No corresponding increase in the judges proportionate to the increase in the litigation.
3) The tendency to seek adjournment for petty and frivolous reasons;
4) The quality of the judges and the faulty method of selection of judges, which is more often for political consideration.

Answer 4

This question is of very general in nature.Slow and fast disposal of any case depends on several factors.
Case related to properties may drag for years.Many records are to be verified, actually measured and corroborated with the defendants and so on so forth.
Criminal cases also depends on the evidence and the way case is presented in the Court.
In both the cases parties will deliberately try to delay the process if it is to their advantage.
Then corruption also leads to postponing the litigation.
Unfilled vacancies in court add to the delay.

However these days after computerisation things are on the move.There are cases where in judgement is given in a weeks time.Let us hope a day is not far when the dispute is settled within a day itself.

Answer 5

Its a Good Question .but i don't think that any one could help it out .The whole process is very slow and there might be many things behind the screen
1) The police personals are too lazy ,they only work if they get something (Bribe)
2) The lawyers are not Honest they forward the dates of the hearing which results on some more pending cases and many more folds are there

Answer 6

Indian never courts

Answer 7

Very good and valid question considering the fact that when the Jesica lall/Priyadarshini Mattoo case was favorably decided, all the three families(Lall, Mattoo and Niitish Katara) said that they were happy but felt that justice was late. I used to think that it had to do with the attitude of the lawyers but that is only one part of the story. This is an extract from well known lawyer KTS Tulsi's article "Justice delayed is Justice Denied" which appeared in the Hindustan Times sometime back:-

"The extent to which a nation is civilised, is determined by the way its criminal courts and prisons function. Yet, the courts cannot function any better than the facilities that are provided to them. The courts have neither the requisite staff nor the state-of-the-art equipment required for adjudication of cases in this supersonic age. A country which prides itself with the largest BPO industry in the world and transcribes millions of bytes of technical data overnight without a flaw or fault, does not even provide a photocopier, a computer or Internet facilities to the criminal courts.

On an average, a criminal court takes over two years to supply copies of documents to the accused. A much more complex process, so admirably performed by the BPO industry of our country in less than 12 hours, even for a clerical or a mechanical process takes 24 months for the criminal court to accomplish. This, despite the fact that we have dedicated judges, who are not only competent, but possess outstanding analytical abilities.


In the US, a criminal court has no more than about five cases on its daily board. A criminal court in Delhi (the situation could be much worse in other parts of the country) has over a hundred cases on its board every day. No wonder they are neither able to fix the time of hearing in each case nor can they indicate the likely time when the witnesses’ statements could be recorded. To cope with the magnitude of work, the judges even permit recording of evidence by the court-staff independently, in their presence, and intervene only when a loud protest is made by one side or the other. Still, even with this infraction, not more than 30-50 pages of evidence can be recorded in a day on ramshackle typewriters or in long-hand by the judges or their staff. Compare this to audio-visual recording facility provided to the criminal courts in more developed countries, with shorthand machines and staff of at least a dozen per court which record upwards of 500 pages of evidence per day."

The issue is what does one do to redress the situation? After Jesica lall, the media will move on to other stories as there is very little follow through on critical issues and nobody sees to it that things are taken to their logical conclusion.If the media is the watchdog and there a problem of judicial infrastructure, it should continue to monitor and report the situation unless it is redressed. Thousands of cases must be pending and causing mental and emotional rapes to the parties concerned but since we are more obsessed with tangible physical rapes, high profile cases will again highlight the issue because in between, we all go off to sleep like Ravan's brother, Kumbhkaran.

Issue also is "Who watches the watchdog?". Unless questions like these are raised and alongwith yahoo, we monitor the situation continously(not forget the question after sometime) , things may imrove and we may happily yell "Yahoo" someday. Otherwise endless discussions on forums such as these are nothing but a lot of intellectual masturbation.

In fact, yahoo should also try and get some legal person to answer what is currently happening on the issue. Former Managing Director of Proctor and Gamble, Mr Gurusharan Das had said in this context " The hand is the cutting edge of the mind". Even Dhirubhai Ambani was great because of implementation. Discussions without action has no meaning.

My anwer is already long but there are a lot of people who talk about lawyers deliberately delaying cases. A few months ago, I had posted Mahatma Gandhi 's i(himself a lawyer) views on lawyers and law on my blog:-

” As a student, I heard that a lawyer’s profession is a liar’s profession. That did not influence me. I had no intention of earning either position or money by lying.” “I have never resorted to untruth in my profession and since a large part of my legal practice was in the interest of public work, I charged nothing beyond out of the box expenses and that too I met myself”. “The true function of a lawyer is to unite parties driven asunder”.

Gandhiji was practical enough to admit though that “Truthfulness in the practice of a profession cannot cure it of the fundamental defect that vitiates it”

Considering that Gandhi, Patel, Nehru and Jinnah(Independence stalwarts) were all lawyers, one can only hope that all this invokes some pride in them and there is serious introspection.

Answer 8

because of lot of cases being in pending taking the action slow n completing the procedures everything in a slow fashion n there is a chance of bribe if u bribe everyone in the way then the action will b fast. its the system that is slow. it will always b the same if someone doesnot consider it seriously

Answer 9

sorry friend our courts are not slow at all,in fact the number of cases all together in our country are high,and if we consider the kind of staff and the corruption in police system the judiciary is doing an great job.

Answer 10

Due to rise of crimes and population.
Many posts are still vacate in judiciary.
Absent ism of layers and witnesses.
Many holidays in a year.
these are the main re sons for a delayed system of Indian courts.

Answer 11

Professional ethics are long dead in people who practice law, which is a scarry truth. Judiciary in the process becomes handicapped to contribute its part to the state.

If the Judiciary arm has to function effectively, lawyers should make a vow to change their attitude towards their profession. When ethics are long gone, dont expect miracles to happen.